Teena Maguire is gang-raped on a 4th of July by a number of men she can’t even recall and in front of her 12-year-old daughter. She is left dying on the floor of the boathouse where it happened and saved by a police officer named Dromoor. She survives but would have preferred not to. In her small American town, a lot of people said that she had it coming and, even if justice worked as it should, she would be frightened all her life. But very gradually her attackers disappear, one of them killed by Drommor in self-defence, two that disappear near a lake, one that sets himself on fire. Teena’s life can start again. A horribly hard story with a satisfying twist.
“How a life is decided. How a life is ended. Good luck, bad luck. Purely luck.”