AR Simmons
ASIN: B00F45FJZW
Publisher: Acorn Moon Press
Pages: 383
Cold TearsA woman as deep in despair as a person can be. Is it unbearable grief or unbearable guilt?A child is missing, a baby taken away in the middle of the night. It’s a life-shattering tragedy, but no one seems to care. Is it because the grieving mother is a “lowlife druggie,” as the chief investigator maintains? Or is there another reason the case is given short shrift by the “good people” of James Mill?Richard Carter, an ex-Marine suffering PTSD who has been spared prosecution for felony homicide only by a governor’s pardon, consents to help the grieving mother, Molly. In doing so, he ignores the pleading of his wife, Jill, who begs him to disengage from the situation which she sees as a threat to his wounded psyche.Will the truth, if and when he finds it, save or destroy the woman who sees Richard as her “godsend?”What he is doing may be futile as well as unwise. It may, in fact ...