We Begin at the End

Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed ΓÇ£outlaw.ΓÇ¥ Rules are for other people,the cowards. At schoolshe is the distant onethe child the other kids make fun ofΓÇöher clothes are tornher hair never properly fixed. But let them throw their sticksbecause sheΓÇÖll throw stones. Duchess might be a badassbut sheΓÇÖs really just trying to survive. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brotherRobin. She is the parent to her motherStara single mom incapable of taking care of herselflet alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. HeΓÇÖs the chief of policetrying to keep Cape Havenwith its beautiful bluffs overlooking the seanot only safebut safe from becoming a cookie-cutter tourist destination for the rich. But heΓÇÖs still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friendVincent Kingto prison decades before. And heΓÇÖs in overdrive protecting Duchess and Robin as Star slip slides deeper into self-destruction. Nowthirty years laterVincent is being released. As soon as he steps one foot back into his childhood towntrouble arrives. It shows up on WalkΓÇÖs and DuchessΓÇÖs doorstepsand they will be unable to do anything but usher it inarms wide closed. With resonances readers will feel in their bonesWe Begin at the End looks at familyΓÇöthe ones we are born into and the ones we create. It shows how revenge and justice are often two very different things. It reveals how doing right can easily be wrong. Chris WhitakerΓÇÖs charactersΓÇöDuchessWalkand everyone they love and whose hearts they breakwho deserve so much more than life serves themΓÇöwill sear your own heart. This novel is a modern-day masterpiece.