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Mar 22, 2021maipenrai rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes puts these criminals behind bars. Far too often she sees the children as traumatized first by the abuse and second by the legal system which often regards them as "incompetent" witnesses or forces them to relive the trauma in court. When her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, becomes a victim of sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb are shattered. They feel an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she enacts a plan to exact her own justice for her son. But are the consequences too great? **** This novel is well written and certainly keeps the reader involved in the outcome. There are no easy moral answers to the quandary faced by this family or to their choices. I was not certain that I agreed with the novel's resolution, but this feeling of moral questioning may have been purposeful on the part of the author. Very little is black and white concerning the role of a parent in the protection of a child. Recommend with the caveat concerning the sensitive topic of childhood sexual abuse.