Rescue

(Paperback)

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Paige Austin has interesting work, a stable marriage, and a circle of women friends that help soothe the ache she would have filled with the child she can't concieve. Still, hers is a world that seems to rotate agreeably on its axis, until her husband's son Malachi, 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 boarding school Mal comes back home to Manhattan. 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 fathom. She is no longer childless, and Mal basks in a love unprecedented in his 17 years as they form a mother-son bond. Then, as abruptly as he arrived, he stalks away, into an existence Paige can only imagine. Left with an unravelling marriage and a wounded heart, she attempts her own kind of escape...until Mal's inevitable crisis crashes in.

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Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Resonant with compassion and humor. Shelby Hearon author of Life Estates Elizabeth Richards speaks to all of us who are lost, who do things we wish we hadn't, who learn almost too late to live differently. Los Angeles Times [Paige is] a very strong character, well-built by Richards using humor, a talent for dialogue, and a writer's careful observance of love between people of all ages. Boston Globe The quirky rhythms and breathless pace of Rescue give us a visceral sense of Paige as a woman who runs to keep from standing still...Sophisticated dialogue, a shrewd depiction of the stepparent-stepchild courtship [and] a touch of class. Sidney Offit author of Memoir of the Bookie's Son The characters that populate Rescue are real people with real problems, and she brings them to the reader with dialogue that is right on pitch. This fast-paced, empathetic novel of complex family relationships is told, too, with an elegant blend of warm feelings and wit.

Author Bio

Elizabeth Richards is the author of Every Day, also available from Pocket Books. She has published fiction in Mademoiselle and various literary magazines, and lives in Riverdale, New York, with her two daughters.