TUESDAY POTPOURRI: “FAULTLINES”

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.

My feature today is a relatively new download from an author I enjoy:  Faultlines, by Barbara Taylor Sissel, a story of tragedy and the testing of a close-knit family.

 

 

 

Intro:  Jordy wasn’t dead.

Sandy plucked that single fact from the sea of information she was hearing from the police sergeant, and she clung to it as tightly as she clung to the phone.  Behind her, she felt the bed shift when Emmett sat up.  She felt his warmth, his sleepy unawareness—his beforeness, and she envied him.  “What is it?” he asked, and he was close enough that his breath on her bare shoulder made her shiver.

“Jordy’s been in a car accident,” she said, and the words floated away from her, separate, foreign sounding.

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Teaser:  Sandy saw the woman loitering by the cart-return area nearest her truck when she came out of the grocery store, and as she passed her, she had a sense of the woman’s stare drilling her back like the hot August glare.  She stowed her bags of groceries, searching her mind for a reference, and found none. (53%).

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Synopsis:  It’s the phone call every parent dreads: in the middle of the night, Sandy Cline learns that her twenty-year-old son, Jordan, has been in a car accident. Her nephew, Travis, was also in the car, along with Travis’s girlfriend. All three are alive—but barely. The car was smashed against a tree along a remote and winding road, beautiful but deadly, in their rural Texas Hill Country town.

In the wake of the car crash, the close-knit family is tested like never before. Jenna, Travis’s mother, blames Jordan—as well as her sister, Sandy—after reports surface that Jordan had been driving. As the young adults struggle to survive, tension between their parents escalates. But when trust is broken and a shocking family secret is exposed, it creates a perfect storm of harrowing consequences. Rumors in the small town spread like wildfire. When details of the accident are questioned, Sandy and Jenna wonder if their family has been destroyed beyond repair.

As always, there’s much more to the story…if the family is to survive, they will have to come together to confront the terrible truth and overcome their pain. But are some betrayals unforgivable?

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What do you think?  Would you keep reading?

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