{"product_id":"this-dark-road-to-mercy-9780062088260","title":"This Dark Road to Mercy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eA Land More Kind Than Home\u003c\/em\u003e--hailed as \"a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e\" (\u003cem\u003eRichmond Times Dispatch\u003c\/em\u003e)--returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter their mother's unexpected death, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father, Wade, suddenly appears. Since Wade signed away his legal rights, the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrated by a trio of alternating voices, \u003cem\u003eThis Dark Road to Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCash, Wiley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eWiley Cash is the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eA Land More Kind Than Home\u003c\/em\u003e, the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThis Dark Road to Mercy, and most recently The Last Ballad\u003c\/em\u003e. He won the SIBA Book Award and the Conroy Legacy Award, was a finalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, and has been nominated for many more. A native of North Carolina, he is the Alumni Author-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He lives in Wilmington, NC with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their two daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50634647011602,"sku":"9780062088260","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6115496-de2c-41b4-985d-ca54c4445bf9.jpg?v=1732820112","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-dark-road-to-mercy-9780062088260","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}