The Right Kind of Fool

Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body,he wishes he’d obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of BeverlyWest Virginiain ways no one could have imagined. The first person those ripples disturb is Loyal’s absentee father. When Creed Raines realized his infant son was deafhe headed for the hillsreturning only to help meet his family’s basic needs. But when Loyalnow a young teenstumbles upon a murder it’s his father he runs to tell–shaping the words with his hands. As Creed is pulled into the investigation he discovers that what sets his son apart isn’t his inability to hear but rather his courage. Longing to reclaim the life he abandonedCreed will have to do more than help solve a murder if he wants to win his family’s hearts again.