The Pact: A Love Story

ISBN: 006085880X

Author: Picoult, Jodi

Condition: New

Engrossing...The Pact is compelling reading.-PeopleIn this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parents worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all?The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children-and its no surprise that in high school Chris and Emilys 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.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. Theres a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his fathers cabinet-a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes.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.