Washington Square Press
August 2002
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Featuring: Jack St. Bride; Addie Peabody
464 pages ISBN: 0743418719 EAN: 9780743418713 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
When Jack St. Bride arrives by chance in the sleepy New
England town of Salem Falls, he decides to reinvent
himself. Tall, blond, and handsome, Jack was once a beloved
teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school—until a
student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and
robbed him of his reputation. Now, working for minimum wage
washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-Or-Diner, Jack
buries his past, content to become the mysterious stranger
who has appeared out of the blue.
With ghosts of her own haunting her, Addie Peabody is as
cautious around men ad Jack St. Bride is around women. But
as this unassuming stranger steps smoothly into the diner's
daily routine, she finds him fitting just as comfortably
inside her heart—and slowly, a gentle, healing love takes
hold between them.
Yet planting roots in Salem Falls may prove fateful for
Jack. Amid the white-painted centuries-old churches, a
quartet of bored, privileged teeage girls have formed a
coven that is crossing the line between amusment and
malicious intent. Quick to notice the attractive new
employee at Addie's diner, the girls turn Jack's world
upside down with a shattering allegation that causes
history to repeat itself—and forces Jack to proclaim his
innocence once again. Suddenly nothing in Salem Falls is as
it seems: a safe haven turns dangerous, an innocent girl
meets evil face-to-face, a dishwasher with a Ph.D. is
revealed to be an ex-con. As Jack's hidden past catches up
with him, the seams of this tiny town begin to tear, and
the emerging truth becomes a slippery concept written in
shades of gray. Now Addie, desperate for answers, must look
into her heart—and into Jack's lies and shadowy secrets;
for evidence that will condemn or redeem the man she has
come to love.
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