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The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the next three hours - the entire scope of the novel - she keeps on running.

Set in Alabama in the early '80s, Family Law follows a young lawyer, Lucia, who is making a name for herself at a time when a woman in a courtroom is still a rarity. She's received plenty of threats for her work extricating women and children from troubled relationships, but her own happy marriage has always felt far removed from her work. When her mother's pending divorce brings teenaged Rachel into Lucia's orbit, Rachel finds herself captivated not only with Lucia, but with the change Lucia represents.

Le zoo est sur le point de fermer ses portes. Joan et son fils de quatre ans, Lincoln, profitent des dernières minutes dans leur coin préféré, à l'écart des visiteurs. Mais quand Joan se décide à pousser gentiment Lincoln vers la sortie, ce qu'elle découvre la force à rebrousser chemin en courant, et à s'enfoncer dans le zoo désormais désert, son fils dans les bras. Dans un parc d'attraction transformé en ménagerie mortelle, pendant les trois plus longues heures de sa vie, Joan va découvrir jusqu'où elle est prête à aller pour sauver Lincoln.

Es ist ein herrlicher Tag, und Joan besucht mit ihrem vierjährigen Sohn Lincoln den Zoo - als plötzlich Schüsse fallen. Am Ausgang liegen Tote auf dem Boden. Joan weiß nicht, was geschehen ist, ob die Polizei unterwegs ist, ob der oder die Täter noch in der Nähe sind. Als sie weitere Schüsse hört, flüchtet sich Joan mit Lincoln in ein leerstehendes Gehege. Das Leben ihres Sohnes hängt jetzt allein von ihr ab und davon, ob sie einen Weg finden wird, sie beide zu retten. Jedes Geräusch, jede Bewegung kann tödlich sein.

When Ren was only 12 years old, she lost her older brother, Scott, to a car accident. Since then, Scott has been a presence in her life, appearing with a snatch of a song or a reflection in the moonlight. Now, twenty-five years later, her talent for connecting with the ghosts around her has made her especially sensitive as an archaeologist. More than just understanding the bare outline of how our ancestors lived, Ren is dedicated to re-creating lives and stories, to breathing life into those who occupied this world long before us. On the cusp of the most important discovery of her career, it is ghosts who are guiding her way.

In 1931 in Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the motivations of family and friends.