Touched
Scott Campbell chronicles an event that in an instant shakes two families to their very foundations. It begins when twelve-year-old Robbie Young comes home from the mall one late afternoon to tell his mother the secret he's been keeping for a year: Jerry Houseman's been touching me. And from that moment on, the novel unfolds with inexorable power. Set in a small midwestern town, the story is narrated in four parts: first by Linda, Robbie's mother, virtually blinded by her sense of gui