Pact LP

<p><strong>Engrossing...<em>The Pact </em>is compelling reading.--<em>People</em></strong></p><p><strong>In this heart-rending tale of love and friendship Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent's worst fear: <em>We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all?</em></strong></p><p>The Golds and the Hartes neighbors for eighteen years have always been inseparable. So have their children--and it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But the bonds of family friendship and passion--which had seemed so indestructible--suddenly threaten to unravel in the wake of unimaginable tragedy.</p><p>When midnight calls from the hospital come in no one is ready for the truth. Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet--a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes.</p><p>This extraordinary poignant novel paints an indelible portrait of two families in anguish . . . and creates an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris is put on trial for murder.</p><br/>