Max Salt, Author

Category:  Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Zelkova Press
Type: Fiction
Pages: 321
Copyright: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780615195278

Scarred by an attack on her family when she was fifteen, Shailene Campbell has since lived her life by two rules: Avoid violence, and Be ready if it comes for her anyway. Rule one has held for nine and a half years, but that’s about to change.

Facing another long, lonely Saturday afternoon, she goes to the mall, but while shopping for something to read she experiences a painful flashback to her rape. This has happened before, but she’s not sure what causes it. Her first impulse is to get home as fast as possible and lock herself in. Instead, refusing to be ruled by fear and wanting to understand, she goes looking for the flashback’s trigger.

This decision puts her on a collision course with her worst nightmares, an atheist crisis of faith, and herself.