The Reckless Oath We Made

A provocative love story between a tough Kansas woman on a crooked path to redemption and her unlikeliest of champions, from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. Many things can bind two people: love, a common enemy, a dangerous promise. Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss. Zee may not be a princess, but Gentry is an actual knight, complete with sword, armor, and a code of honor. Two years ago the voices he hears called him to be Zee's champion. Both shy and autistic, he's barely spoken to her since, but he has kept watch, ready to come to her aid. When an abduction tears Zee's family apart, she turns to the last person she ever imagined--Gentry--and sets in motion a chain of events that will not only change both of their lives, but bind them to one another forever in one of the most moving and complicated love stories of our time. The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic, revealing the strength, honor, and power that lie at the heart of love.

Literature & Fiction

Greenwood, Bryn

United States

G.P.Putnam's Sons

A new provocative love story from the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. &nbsp; "The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read." --Brunonia Barry &nbsp; Their journey will break them--or save them. &nbsp; A moving and complicated love story for our time, The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic. Zee has never admitted to needing anybody. But she needs Gentry. Her tough exterior shelters a heart that's loyal to the point of self-destruction, while autistic Gentry wears his heart on his sleeve, including his desire to protect Zee at all costs. When an abduction tears Zee's family apart, she turns to Gentry--and sets in motion a journey and a love that will change their lives forever. &nbsp; "[A] mind-blowing book that has left me scrambling to pick up the pieces of my brain and my shattered heart&nbsp;. . . Prepare to have your mind and heart expanded to their limits." --The Oklahoman

Jennifer has a great job and a go-getter fiancé. She's on track for success, until she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run. Mistaking Jennifer for someone else, the dying victim extracts an impossible promise. Jennifer's fiancé wants her to forget the whole incident, but when she closes her eyes, she can still see the bloody face of the woman who asked for her help. Olivia is in a rut. Burdened with caring for her brain-damaged brother and already feeling like a spinster at 27, she's desperate to escape. In a moment of weakness, she tells a lie that draws an unsuspecting paramedic into her life. As she struggles to expiate the lie, a horrible act of violence will test her resolve to be honest. Where Jennifer's promise and Olivia's lie intersect, their lives begin to unravel.

Lie Lay Lain

Literary

Stairway Press

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016
A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.
By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.
31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer ―Bustle
Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 ―New York Daily News
Best Books of 2016 ―St. Louis Post Dispatch

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

Thomas Dunne Books

A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

A beautiful and provocative love story about two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love. Bryn Greenwood's debut is a powerful novel readers won't soon forget.

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The Reckless Oath We Made

The Reckless Oath We Made

Lie Lay Lain

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Thorndike Press Large Print)

The Reckless Oath We Made (Thorndike Press Large Print Peer Picks)

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel