Rescue Author:Elizabeth Richards "A remarkable hit....Here, finally, is a woman's perspective on a tough theme," raved the Minneapolis Star Tribune of Elizabeth Richards' "swift and gripping" (Kirkus Reviews) debut, Every Day. Now the critically acclaimed author returns with a dazzling new work -- as compelling as if your own life were suddenly turned upsid... more »e down by the surprising, maddening, invigorating arrival of a kind of love you never expected.Paige Austin has interesting work, a stable marriage, and a circle of women friends that help soothe the ache where life has left empty spots: the place in her heart that her beloved father held, and the one she would have filled with the child she can't conceive. Still, hers is a world that seems to rotate agreeably on its axis -- until her husband's son, Malachi MacGowan, walks into it. Suddenly, Paige is watching herself spin in a brand-new direction as she begins to lose sight of everything she'd thought she was about.Thrown out of private school, Mal is the reprobate stepson Paige hardly knows who has come to live with her and his father in their Manhattan apartment. Paige's friends proffer effusive counsel on stepmotherhood, but nothing prepares her for Mal himself. An impossibly tall, smart-talking young man, he makes her feel certifiably old -- and yet edgily, wonderfully alive.In a few electric days, Mal and Paige seem to forge a connection neither of them can fully fathom. She is no longer childless, and Mal basks in a love unprecedented in his seventeen years. Then, as abruptly as he arrived, he stalks away -- into an existence defined by friends and activities Paige can only imagine. Left with an unraveling marriage and a wounded heart, she attempts her own kind of escape...until Mal's inevitable crisis crashes in.Like Every Day, "a story of people who rise through pain to generosity, gallantry, and the possibility of grace" (Publishers Weekly), Rescue proves Elizabeth Richards is "a novelist to watch" (New York Newsday). With her keen eye and courageous take on the mutable faces of love, she vividly illumines how an ordinary life can change in a heartbeat -- and change again.« less
A story about a woman and the way she deals with her inability to conceive and the way she fills the void. Then the stepson she hardly knows comes into her life and throws it all off balance. A good read.