Bones: A Coming-of-Age Novel - Signed Edition

Bones: A Coming-of-Age Novel - Signed Edition

Could you hide a body if he was your only friend?

BONES  A Coming-of-Age Novel

Spring 1978 Westerville, Colorado
When ten-year-old Fin trips over a tennis shoe sticking out of the hard ground in the Colorado woods behind his house, what he discovers is so horrific that he can’t tell a soul. He buries the secret deep within himself and shifts his focus to more important things—like evading the bullies at school and getting the attention of the prettiest girl in his class.

Terry “Mad Dog” is rotting away on Death Row for killing nearly twenty random boys scattered in shallow graves across the country. Determined to keep himself from being the next inmate executed, he derives a sick game where he reveals one child’s location on the same day each year, buying him more precious time as families wait in agony for their year to come up.

When the timeline is cut short, the game goes into full swing, but Jonathan a brilliant black attorney, is desperate to find his own son, who is far down on Terry’s list. As one year turns into two, the family man trades his confidence for a bottle and careens head-on toward personal and professional disaster.

Jonathan’s predicament leaves him with an unexpected choice: Fin, the person he least wants in his life, may be his only hope for salvation.

Reminiscent in tone to Where the Crawdads Sing, and Stand by Me, and Red Mountain, and The Dry Grass of August, BONES, intertwines adventure, loss, perseverance, and forgiveness.