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Shallow Point

My son was killed the night of my husband’s fortieth birthday. They say I’m the one who killed him.

The night of her husband’s 40th birthday, Dani Jacobson walks out on a marriage that’s been going steadily downhill after her husband’s friends treat him to a stripper—at a party where children are present. It’s the last straw after years of watching him and Shallow Point’s not-so-mature adults behave like overgrown teenagers. She takes Cody, her nine-year-old son, with her. They leave in Jake’s new car and drive along the northern California coast, looking for a place to stay.

Then the car, an EV with all the latest features, starts to act up.

Dani, who’s been drinking, can’t control it.

They barrel through a guardrail into the Pacific.

Dani wakes up a week later in hospital to find her son has been killed in the accident. She is sentenced to 18 months for vehicular manslaughter. Jacob, her husband, divorces her. The town of Shallow Point turns its back. The guilt she feels is only slightly assuaged by the thought that the car she had driven that night just didn’t seem to be handling correctly.

When she gets out of Tranquility State Prison, Dani returns to Shallow Point to find out what happened the night of the accident.

But her now ex-husband, a lawyer with a shadowy past working for the town’s crime boss, is nowhere to be found. Neither are her son’s remains.

Her better judgement tells her to leave Shallow Point.

But better judgement won’t solve what happened that night.

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