After their mother unexpectedly dies, twelve-year-old Easter Quillby and her six-year-old sister, Ruby, aren' t expecting to see their errant father, Wade, ever again. But the ex– minor league baseball player who' s been gone for years has suddenly appeared at their foster home to steal them away in the middle of the night.
Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for them, and quickly turns up unsettling information linking their father to a multimillion-dollar robbery. But Brady isn' t the only hunter on the trail. Robert Pruitt, a mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is determined to find Wade and claim his due.
Narrated in alternating voices that are at once captivating and heartbreaking, This Dark Road to Mercy is a soulful story about the emotional pull of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.
