"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...

Soon after arriving in Sugartree, Arkansas - where she spent many lazy, languid childhood summer - Benni discovers that there's something seriously sinister brewing in this small town. Two churches are planning on merging, but just the thought of a racially mixed congregation is just a little too much for some people to handle. And Benni's downright worried about her friend Amen - as the first black woman to run for mayor, she's taking a lot of heat...