Mosaic

by Susan Oloier

When nineteen-year-old Natalie Kirkland strikes and kills forty-three-year-old Gordon O’Neil on a darkened stretch of highway and flees the scene, her life changes forever. Only two people share her secret: her boyfriend, Andrew, and the silent witness across the highway. Haunted by guilt, Natalie takes measures to put the incident behind her. But her self-reproach intensifies once her life begins to tangle with Gordon’s through an accidental friendship with his sixteen-year-old son. Soon, a series of event draws their two lives together.

320 pages, Paperback

Published August 30, 2016

About the author

Susan Oloier is the author of My Life as a Misfit, Fractured, Superstitions, Outcast, Haunted, and the screenplay Simple Fugitives. She is co-author of the Horror Street Series. She has been a columnist and writer for both regional and national publications, including The Daily Beast. Susan currently lives with her husband and two sons. When she's not writing, she loves to read, rock climb, and ride her bike.

Reviews

[Gina Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Natalie is a nineteen year old struggling with her independence while dealing with her cerebral palsy. One night after seeing her boyfriend, who now has had to much to drink and can't drive her home, she takes his car to go home and is involved in a hit and run. She tells her boyfriend what happened, but doesn't turn herself into the authorities. As time goes on the secret continues to eat at both of them and a fracture develops in their relationship. The situation becomes even worse for Natalie when she realizes she has befriended the son of the victim in the accident. Will she ever do the right thing and turn herself in? This book will hook you and hold your attention right from the very start. You can't help but feel bad for Natalie, and yet at the same time want her to do the right thing. What will happen between her and Andrew?
* I received an ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.