RESCUE BY ANITA SHREVE, LITTLE, BROWN, $32.99.
Peter Webster is a good man and a single dad raising teenage daughter Rowan. For 17 years, they’ve lived a simple life together, but they’re missing a wife and mother.
The missing wife and mum in question is Sheila Arsenault, who was a young woman on the run when she crashed her car and met Webster, a rookie paramedic. He fell hard and quickly, and for a while he and Sheila were happy. yet even Webster couldn’t save his wife from herself. What happened to drive them apart? And can it ever be forgiven? For Rowan’s sake, their troubled past has to be addressed. It takes a second near-tragedy to bring this family together. The plot of Rescue sounds gruelling, but makes smooth reading.