From the national bestselling author of PLAIN TRUTH comes an acclaimed richlyatmospheric novel about a teacher undone by a disturbing modernday witch hunt.Tall ... » 

From the national bestselling author of PLAIN TRUTH comes an acclaimed richlyatmospheric novel about a teacher undone by a disturbing modernday witch hunt.Tall blonde and handsome Jack McBride was once a beloved teacher and footballcoach at a girls school until a students crush sparked a powderkeg ofaccusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now after adevastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eightmonth jail sentence andno job Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life taking a job washingdishes at Addie Peabodys diner and slowly forming a relationship with her.But just when it seems like his life is back on track Jack finds himself theobject of fresh accusations of rape brought on by a coven of bewitching teenagegirls from Salem Falls and history repeats itself as Jacks hidden pastcatches up with him. In a sleepy hamlet haunted by enduring love and wickeddeceit Picoult masterfully leads readers toward a truly shocking finale.A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past once a teacher at a girls prep school Jack St.Bride was destroyed when a students crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now washing dished for Addie Peabody at the DoOrDiner he slips quietly into his new routine and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets. «