Her childhood was clouded by feelings of insecurity and bullying by mean girls, but her skill as a softball player brought her some comfort. Following the deaths of her parents in a car accident, she was raised by her aunt and uncle in the Bible Belt hamlet of Repentance, Arkansas. Mary Grace Dobbs’ life has changed dramatically since murder stalked her hometown, but the sins of the past still color her present. This spellbinding debut novel introduces a protagonist whose concept of good and evil can shape a young girl living in the Deep South-then and now.A Southern gothic thriller replete with sins real and imagined. Set in the remote Ozark hills, where the secrets run as deep as the rushing waters of the caves that wind through town, Saving Grace blends elements of To Kill A Mockingbird with enthralling psychological suspense. In doing so, she’ll be forced to face a decision no parent should ever have to make. Struggling to hold everything together and solve the crime-while at the same time fearing for the safety of her own daughter-Mary Grace must reckon with her own dark secrets and confront a terrible truth. These events whip up a frenzy of anger and prejudice, stirring a pot of racial animosity with increasingly violent potential.
Keeping order and her demons at bay becomes an impossible task when the black drifter who was a suspect in the earlier disappearances returns to Repentance.and another young teen vanishes. Today, Mary Grace is a single mother and the first female sheriff of the small mountain town of Repentance, Arkansas, a position that doesn’t sit well with some of the less progressive of the citizens. Until two months later, when the bully and the new friend vanished, never to be seen again. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her first and only best friend.
At school, a bully made her life a nightmare.
Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to live on the charity of her Bible salesman uncle, her wheelchair-bound aunt, and her cousin who tortured and killed small animals. For twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. "I'm the only one who knows what really happened to those girls." In this gripping suspense debut, the first female sheriff of a small Ozark village investigates a disappearance that echoes the crimes that shattered her town decades before.
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