The Scent of Lightning and Rain by Nancy Pickard
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Summary
One glorious summer farewell, from her bedchamber window on the 2nd room, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in confront of her parents’ house-or what she calls her parents’ home, even though Jay and Laurie Jo Linder have been spent virtually all of Jody’s lifetime. “What is this fearsome target I see?” the young high school English teacher whispers, mimicking Shakespeare. Lustrous boots, pressed jeans, white shirts, Stetsons-her uncles’ suspiciously cleaned visiting clothes are a disturbing clew.
The 3 bring sensational things : The man found guilty of murdering Jody’s father is being free from jail and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-six years since that inclement evening when, as person Jody lay sleepy in her crib, her father was shot and killed and her mother disappeared, presumed killed. Neither the tutelary embrace of Jody’s uncles nor the unhurt harbor of her grandparents’ farm could efface the symptom caused by Billy Crosby on that catastrophic evening.
Now Billy Crosby has been acknowledged a new trial, thanks to large part to the efforts of his son, Collin, a lawyer who has spent most of his life disagreeable to sustain his father’s innocence. As Jody lives just a few doors down from the Crosbys, she knows that sooner or afterwards she’ll get face-to-face with the man who she believes destroyed her family.
What she doesn’t expect are the hot exchanges with Collin. Having grown up practically side by side in this very little townsfolk, Jody and Collin have had a long story of carefully avoiding each other’s eyes. Now Jody discovers that underneath their antagonism is a mutual significance of death that no one added could mayhap realize. As she revisits old wounds, startling revelations obligate her to show the hazardous libber most her family’s tragic past.
Riveting, emotional, and suspenseful, The Scent of Rain and Lightning captures the essence of small-town America-its heartfelt intimacy and its darkest secrets-where with effort and misfortune people still act to hope for a better future. For Jody Linder, maybe even love.
