A Bend In
The Willow
by Susan Clayton-Goldner
GENRE: Women's Fiction
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Willowood, Kentucky 1965 - Robin
Lee Carter sets a fire that kills her rapist, then disappears. She reinvents
herself and is living a respectable life as Catherine Henry, married to a
medical school dean in Tucson, Arizona. In 1985, when their 5-year-old son,
Michael, is diagnosed with a chemotherapy-resistant leukemia, Catherine must
return to Willowood, face her family and the 19-year-old son, a product of her
rape, she gave up for adoption. She knows her return will lead to a murder
charge, but Michael needs a bone marrow transplant. Will she find forgiveness,
and is she willing to lose everything, including her life, to save her dying
son?
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