Heron River

<p>Heron River is a deeply moving exploration of human error and redemption</p><p>tragedy and triumph set in the supposed safety of a small Ontario town.</p><p>The novel confronts the necessary possibilities for human forgiveness and</p><p>love amidst adversity.</p><p>The threads of the characters' lives are intricately interwoven. Madeline</p><p>Harbottle a woman with a gradually debilitating illness seeks solace from the</p><p>pain of the past and the challenges of the present. Her son Adam damaged from</p><p>a tragic childhood accident finds security in his routine existence until he falls</p><p>prey to a cunning deception. Jacob Cunningham a gifted thirteen-year-old boy</p><p>harbors a dark secret that he must confront in order to be whole. A young police</p><p>officer named Tara Burnaby tries to solve a puzzling string of break-ins following</p><p>the murder of an elderly woman and the previously staid small town reacts</p><p>anxiously to the fact of a killer in their midst.</p><p>Heron River probes the fierce bonds of family the tragic consequences of</p><p>human failure and the persistent reverberations of history and memory.</p>