![]() For Sal’s grief seems shaded with fear, and Nora suspects he knows more than he’s telling about his favourite teacher’s death. Yet, the truth about Adam’s murder may lie closer to home. After his death, she delves into his past for clues to who killed him. Nora Wheaton, the school’s social studies teacher, sensed a kindred spirit in Adam – another soul bound to Lovelock by guilt and duty. It is Sal who finds Adam’s body, charred almost beyond recognition, half a mile from his uncles’ compound. In the seven months he worked at Lovelock’s middle school, the quiet and seemingly unremarkable Adam Merkel had formed a bond with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. When the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town is rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. ![]() A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. ![]()
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