The Second Coming

Tammy Grainger grew up in a house where love and fear lived side by side, and where the truth about her own family was something everyone around her had agreed never to say out loud. At fifteen, she crossed a canal into another world - a warm, welcoming house that felt like everything hers wasn't - and fell for a boy named Corey Goodman, the one person who made her believe she could outrun where she came from.She married him. She built a life with him. And when grief came for her, she thought it had already taken everything it possibly could.She was wrong.Eighteen years later, a name from her past resurfaces on an ordinary Thursday afternoon - and Detective Tammy Goodman makes a choice she has spent her entire career warning other people against. What begins as one carefully guarded secret unravels into betrayal, obsession, and a slow-motion crime that will cost her the one thing she has left to protect.Spanning four decades - from a snow-covered doorstep to an interview room she knows all too well - this is a novel about the debts abuse leaves behind, the lies a family tells to survive, and how far one woman will go chasing a redemption she was never owed. Told with aching honesty and mounting suspense, it asks the questions at the heart of every kind of loss: how much of the past can we really leave behind, how far would you go for the person you cannot forget and what does it cost us to try?

Tammy Grainger grew up in a house where love and fear lived side by side, and where the truth about her own family was something everyone around her had agreed never to say out loud. At fifteen, she crossed a canal into another world - a warm, welcoming house that felt like everything hers wasn't - and fell for a boy named Corey Goodman, the one person who made her believe she could outrun where she came from.She married him. She built a life with him. And when grief came for her, she thought it had already taken everything it possibly could.She was wrong.Eighteen years later, a name from her past resurfaces on an ordinary Thursday afternoon - and Detective Tammy Goodman makes a choice she has spent her entire career warning other people against. What begins as one carefully guarded secret unravels into betrayal, obsession, and a slow-motion crime that will cost her the one thing she has left to protect.Spanning four decades - from a snow-covered doorstep to an interview room she knows all too well - this is a novel about the debts abuse leaves behind, the lies a family tells to survive, and how far one woman will go chasing a redemption she was never owed. Told with aching honesty and mounting suspense, it asks the questions at the heart of every kind of loss: how much of the past can we really leave behind, how far would you go for the person you cannot forget and what does it cost us to try?