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Nobody believed that Pastor Matt raped her. The tight-knit religious community punished her when she spoke out, expected fifteen-year-old Mercy to repent for making false allegations. Instead, she ran. And somebody - her father? - beat Pastor Matt into a coma and left his wife for dead. Twenty-three years later, Iris has put a life together, transformed herself from runaway teen Mercy Asher to sought-after jewelry designer Iris Dashwood. But now that Pastor Matt's awake, she's sliding back, losing ground to the painful memories she's barely kept at bay. Iris has no choice but to return to Lone Pine - to confront the man who tore her life apart and recover the truth from a community that protects its own. Let whoever is without sin cast the first stone Praise: "Outstanding.



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Laura DiSilverio

Laura DiSilverio is the national best-selling author of 21 (and counting) novels, including Close Call (one of the Top 5 mysteries of 2016, according to Library Journal) ,The Reckoning Stones (2016's Colorado Book Award winner for best mystery) , and the Readaholics Book Club series. She spent 20 years as an Air Force intelligence officer before retiring to write and parent full-time. Her teen daughters coaxed her into writing a young adult novel, and the result is the dystopian Incubation Trilogy (because three is better than one, right? ) . She is a past President of Sisters in Crime and a frequent keynote speaker and teacher at writers conferences and events. She plots murder and parents teens in Colorado, trying to keep the two tasks separate.



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