Central Kansas Library System

A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.

Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compact, broken chunks of ivory powder spilling into the grass. Then the mist parts--just for a second--to reveal a beautiful young girl on the ground, her pale lips frozen forever in a silent scream...On a winding mountain road into the small town of Denton, Pennsylvania, Detective Josie Quinn finds the...