Good Guys

Gary Clemmens is dead. Only Jo Prescott knows how deeply his secret cruel streak ran.

A high school sports star and the son of a local evangelical pastor, Gary’s death while serving in Iraq sends shock waves through his hometown in Maine. The death of the town’s golden boy especially troubles the Prescott sisters, Georgie and Jo.

The two sisters are a study in contrast. Georgie is stagnating in her slow-paced life, where she still lives with their pious, churchgoing father, who requires daily support after a disabling back injury. Her relationship with Gary’s younger sister, Tara, is her only escape from her challenging home life. Jo is an aspiring journalist at an elite college, where she puts all her energy into hiding the fact that she’s struggling to fit in and make her mark while she watches her debt pile up.

When Georgie tells Jo that she has discovered photos of shocking war crimes linked to Gary, Jo is faced with the choice to keep his secrets and let him be remembered as an all-around good guy, or use what she knows to further her own ambitions.

After Jo’s brash young journalism professor pushes her to submit the story to a national magazine, the attention it receives tests everything the sisters know of the ties that bind—and the point at which they break.