All God's Children

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An Innocent Child is Caught Between Fundamentalism and Family...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When therapist and mediator Grace McDonald returns to Kansas after a ten-year hiatus in Alaska to be with her daughter and autistic grandson she expects a tough adjustment. But what Grace cannot anticipate is being assigned the mediation case from hell.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not just about parental rights and custody </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the case becomes a battle for the heart and soul of a child.</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Mike is a combat vet who was never told he had a son. Becca is a member of the gay-bashing funeral-picketing Westboro Baptist Church and what is often labeled the most hated family in America.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>David eleven years old is their son.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meticulously researched </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All God's Children</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> moves fluidly between verifiable facts and the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What if? </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>of fiction. Kraus takes readers behind the closed doors of mediation and locked gates of the Westboro Baptist Church compound. When a brutal assault leaves the community reeling Grace is pushed to uncover the truth.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>More Jodi Picoult than Sue Grafton </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All God's Children</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> challenges readers to find humanity in the most despised of bigots. It explores what happens when beliefs become more precious than the people we love while moving inexorably to an I-never-saw-it-coming ending that will leave book groups arguing for weeks.</span></p>