When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken mother finds the courage and faith to save him, in ReShonda Tate Billingsleys powerful family drama—a novel as timely as todays headlines. The breaking TV news rocks Jasper, Texas, to the core a white police officer is fatally shot in a scuffle with three black youths—and a cellphone video captures Jamal Jones, the sixteen-year-old son of esteemed Reverend Elton Jones, escalating the tragic encounter. Now, as the national spotlight shines on a town already rife with racial tension, Jamal is a murder suspect on the run. And all of Jasper—even the Reverends congregation—rushes to judge the boy they thought they knew. But Gloria Jones knows her son best, and she races to find Jamal before the law does—to the outrage of her workaholic husband.
