by Charles Martin
(2007)
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Chase Walker is a journalist who investigates the mystery of an abandoned boy on a railroad. You know how he got there, but you do not know how or what happened to that day. You just know that this boy is shattered.
But this child awakens something within Chase that needed to be reborn: the need to know the truth. The truth about the boy; the truth about himself, and the truth about the most important man in his life: his adoptive father. While searching for the truth about the boy, Chase also pursues the truth about his father and about crime that was committed long before it was adopted.
He knows the charges were false, but he just can not prove it. The story advances until the truth finally comes out. But it is not the truth that the reader has assumed … it is much, much better.
Within all of us there is the desire to know who we truly are … and to know that we are loved and desired. We all seek the truth, and almost always our past seems incomplete. This is a fascinating novel, an extraordinary allegory to the universal desire to be loved.
I loved this book. Read it in one sitting. However, I wanted more from the ending. A sequel that follows up on TC’s and Chase’s lives and I wanted the “Cain” brother to get his karmic due. And, some good karmic reaping on Unc and Lorna. I was also hoping for some romance between Mandy and Chase. In other words, there is another book to be written.