Rescue a novel
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Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Webster is soon embroiled in an intense love affair--and in her troubled life. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Webster is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet existence together, Webster fears for her future. Now he must seek out the only person who may be able to help Rowan. Webster's search unleashes the dangerous questions he has carefully kept at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel? To save his daughter from self-destructing, Webster must risk losing her forever. With luminous language and stunning emotional clarity, Anita Shreve brings us a story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth. Rescue is a powerful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again.