From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone calls came at 3:00 a.m. on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact -- leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 03/01/2006
ISBN: 9780060858803
Pages: 389
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.46w x 0.98d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 03/07/2008 pg. 95

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 45218 / Pact
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 24