Good Intentions
A Novel
Description:... In Evanston one bitterly cold day, acting on impulse, Rachel buys the house in which she grew up. It's an effort to recapture the happiness and stability that have been shattered by a series of blows that began with the death of her father ten years ago and culminated with her recent divorce. She moves in, hopeful that a rekindled love affair with newsman Amos Curley and the return home of her teenage daughter, Edie, will start the healing. She and Edie are suddenly joined for the Christmas holidays by her mother, Camilla - who brings her own memories and fears to this wary reunion. Rachel's good intentions catapult the three generations of women into an unexpected confrontation with long-suppressed family secrets. But as they struggle, something sinister begins happening on Rachel's radio show that will affect them all. A strangely sardonic listener calling himself the Truthseeker and claiming to be a notorious Chicago murderer begins to call Rachel on the air. The show's ratings shoot through the roof. But then the calls start coming to Rachel's home, and she realizes she and her family are being stalked. Rachel soon faces the possibility that her stalker is not some demented stranger but someone familiar with her most intimate secrets. It is in this atmosphere that she tries to pull together the pieces of her life - knowing finally that not even all the good intentions in the world can save her from facing painful truths if she is to find her way home.
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