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New York Times bestselling author Deborah Bedford sweeps readers into this compelling drama with her trademark style of beautiful, lyrical writing. A mother fights for her son, even as she faces losing his love and ultimately his life in this moving novel.Since her divorce from Eric, Helen has done everything she can to control life for herself and her son. Beneath a calm surface, she is terrified of failing Scott. She's worked hard to raise him on her own, and she succeeded - he's now set to graduate from high school and enroll at the University of Illinois with a full scholarship.But Helen's worst fears are realized when there is a rock-climbing accident at a post-graduation camping trip. A young girl is hurt, and Scott is arrested. Pamela, Eric's new wife and Scott's step-mother, blames Helen for letting Scott go to the camp in the first place. With Scott's college scholarship now just a distant memory and his entire future at stak
e, the two women must come together for Scott's sake.Is Helen's love strong enough to save her son and release him to her ex-husband's other wife?320 pages