![]() ![]() After Adam’s death, she delves into his past for clues to who killed him and finds a dark history she understands all too well. She sensed in the new math teacher a kindred spirit-another soul bound to Lovelock by guilt and duty. Nora Wheaton, the middle school’s social studies teacher, dreamed of a life far from Lovelock only to be dragged back on the eve of her college graduation to care for her disabled father, a man she loves but can’t forgive. But it is Sal who finds Adam’s body, charred almost beyond recognition, half a mile from his uncles’ compound. The two outcasts developed a tender, trusting friendship that brought each of them hope in the wake of tragedy. ![]() A quiet, seemingly unremarkable man, he connected with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. By day’s end, when the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town will be rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder.Īdam Merkel left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school in Lovelock seven months before he died. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. ![]() I would like to thank Anne from Random Tours and Verve Books for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review.Ī body burns in the high desert hills. ![]()
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