FREE: The Pact (A Love Story) by Jodi Picoult

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I received this book from Singapore through a book club and while the book is nice and tight and has a library binding, the outside of the book and the first page are covered in brown spots. it does not smell and the rest of the inside of the book is clean. There is a name printed on the inside front cover.


For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends--so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.

When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot would to the head, inflicted by Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullent that Chris police he intended for himself, but a local detective has his doubts. JAnd the Hartes and the Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent;s worse fear: Do we ever really know our children at all?

Jodi Picoult paints an indelible portrait of families in anguish, culminating in an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris finds himself on trial for murder. The Pact is storytelling at its best: wonderfully observed, deeply moving, and utterly impossible to put down.