Rescue [Paperback] Shreve, Anita

Peter Webster is a paramedic in Vermont who has spent two decades haunted by a single night: the drunk-driving accident where he pulled Sheila from a wrecked car, fell for her recklessness, and married her within months. The marriage didn't last — her drinking saw to that — but their daughter Rowan did. Now eighteen, Rowan wants answers about the mother she barely remembers, and Peter must decide how much of the truth she can handle. Shreve writes with surgical precision about the long shadow addiction casts over families, the impossible choices loving someone destructive forces you to make, and the moment a child realizes her parents are just people who tried their best. This is domestic drama stripped to its studs: no melodrama, just the quiet devastation of what we inherit and what we choose to carry forward. For readers who like their family sagas lean, taut, and emotionally honest.