Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child--and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero. nFrom New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime--or if your mistakes are carried forever. nFourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. Shes also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her fathers life.... Comic book artist Daniel Stone would do anything to protect his daughter. But when a single act of violence shatters her innocence, seemingly mild-mannered Daniels convictions are put to the test--while his own shockingly tumultuous past, hidden even from his family, comes to light. Now, everything Trixies ever believed about her hero, her father, seems to be a lie as Daniel ventures to hell and back, seeking revenge. Will the price be the bond they share? n nRevealing an exceptional, unflinching, and utterly chilling (The Washington Post) portrait of todays youth culture, Jodi Picoult pulls readers inside a shattered family facing the toughest questions of morality and forgiveness.n