The Favor

The Favor

Megan Hart

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"With characteristic compassion and searing honesty, Megan Hart weaves a shattering small-town story about what can turn brother against brother, and the kinds of secrets that cannot remain untold." Janelle Decker has happy childhood memories of her grandma's house, and even lived there through high school. Now she's back with her twelve-year-old son to look after her ailing Nan, and hardly anything seems to have changed, not even the Tierney boys next door. Gabriel Tierney, local bad-boy. The twins, Michael and Andrew. After everything that happened between the four of them, Janelle is shocked that Gabe still lives in St. Mary's. And he isn't trying very hard to convince Janelle he's changed from the moody teenage boy she once knew. If anything, he seems bent on making sure she has no intentions of rekindling their past. To this day, though there might've been a lot of speculation about her relationship with Gabe, nobody else knows she was there in the woods that day...the day a devastating accident tore the Tierney brothers apart and drove Janelle away. But there are things that even Janelle doesn't know, and as she and Gabe revisit their interrupted romance, she begins to uncover the truth denied to her when she ran away all those years ago.

Publication Year: 2013


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    May 02, 2025
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    I finished THE FAVOR with a sound like I had been punched in the chest, a woof and a wheeze and a furrowed brow. Megan Hart has always had a gift for writing the most naked, broken, beautiful characters. People with issues, with struggles, with blood rising from wounds that never heal without a scar. THE FAVOR takes on the most disturbing of subjects, child abuse and neglect and the claustrophobic intimacy of families. These characters are beautiful and heartbreaking. As ever, Hart swept me into her world, I gulped this book down in one, white-knuckled dose. I am so glad I met these characters, I'm so glad I read their story, I just wish I could make it all go away. I wish I could have stepped through the pages and rescued those children, long before they became the adults that kept me glued to the page.

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