Today, Mary Grace is a single mother and the first female sheriff of her Arkansas town. Two months later, search parties were sent out to find her two classmates, who were never 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.
This startling debut novel introduces a captivating protagonist whose concept of good and evil can shape a young girl-then and now.“I’m the only one who knows what really happened to those girls…”įor twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. Set in the remote Ozark hills, where the secrets run as deep as the hollows, Saving Grace blends elements of To Kill a Mockingbird with twisty, edge-of-your-seat psychological suspense.
Racing to find the missing girl while fearing for the safety of her own sixth-grade daughter, Mary Grace must confront an unspeakable truth-and face a decision no parent should ever have to make. The case becomes even more fraught as a cult of white supremacists brings its gospel of hate to Repentance and violence explodes, claiming more lives. With old prejudices and new secrets spilling out into the open, the modern world soon illuminates the village’s darkest corners. Keeping order and her demons at bay becomes an impossible task when the Black drifter suspected in the earlier disappearances returns to Repentance. Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her Arkansas town, a position that doesn’t sit well with some of the locals. Everything changed when a newcomer to town became her only best friend, and changed a second time when that friend and another classmate vanished two months later, never to be seen again. Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to go live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a 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 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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