When she returns to her hometown, Maggie O’Leary’s secrets are right where she left them. There’s a car in the river with a body inside. An old flame wants her back. And her teenage son, Lane, wishes he could make it all go away. Lane joins the high school football team as an escape only to discover the head coach, Matthew Shear, could be his uncle. And the life they left unraveling back in San Francisco was his mother’s attempt to conceal his real father’s identity, and perhaps a crime of passion that ended in the river.
River of Mercy is filled with heart, a story of beautiful broken things worth fixing. At times lyrical and endlessly heartfelt, Paula Scott delivers a remarkable generational story of love, deceit, and the power of forgiveness.