Young veterinarian Rachel Goddard is drawn back into a childhood memory after a scene at the animal hospital reopens buried feelings. From there she moves toward the family secrets surrounding her mother, sister, and long-dead father, in a psychological suspense novel about control, loss, and the way the past keeps breaking into the present.

A memory that returns in the rain begins to unravel a family secret, piece by piece.

Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even dead, she is the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. It is a moment that will forever change his life and the lives of everyone around him. The mysterious dead girl--the "Virgin of Small Plains"--inspires local reve...

Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours...

A short mystery story that turns an apparently intimate, domestic situation into a sharper look at guilt, misdirection, and the pressure beneath ordinary life.

A compact story where a private situation opens into mystery and unease.

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...