From Barnes & NobleFor Emily, it begins with her father carrying in a dead body from the dark of the forest. Charged with the young girl's murder and too locked in his memories of wartime horrors to extract himself, he has no defense except what his teenage daughter can give him. And Emily herself is not without worries: Is her handsome boyfriend Damon somehow implicated in the ghastly murder of the beautiful girl with the model's eyes?
School Library Journal03/01/2014
Gr 9 Up—Emily Shepherd looks out the window in the early morning and sees her father carrying something through the woods. A deer? No, it's the body of a teenage girl. And Emily knows her: it's Ashlee Parker, a classmate, and girlfriend of football star Damon Hilary.
