Winter Flower by Charles SheehanMiles Hardback Book 9781632021724

From the bestselling author of Just Remember to Breathe and The Last Hour a shocking and poignant story of a family on the brink of destruction and the transformational events that could bring them back togetherampmdashor tear them apartampnbsp Every day Cole Roberts reminds himself that life wasnamprsquot always this bleak He was once passionately in love with Erin Sam used to be an artistic and lively kid They hadnamprsquot always lived in a shabby tworoom house in rural Alabama where he runs a mediocre restaurant in the middle of nowhere That was before Brenna disappeared It was before Cole lost his job and they lost their home Every day it gets worse Erin drinks wine out of the bottle and spends her days with a tormented expression searching the web for signs of their daughter Sam hides in his room and rarely speaks And Cole works himself to a stupor for a paycheck a fraction of the size of his old salaryampnbsp Until one day a phone call changes everything winter flower is at once a tragic tale of the disappearance of a child struggling with gender identity of the dark world of sextrafficking and the transformation and healing of a family SheehanMilesamprsquos longest novel delves into the depths of family lifeampmdashand how sometimes we can heal and find restoration