A couple of days later, Kennedy convinces her boss to let her take Ruth's case. Ruth goes to jail, though her teenage son Edison is able to bail her out that night. During the hearing, Turk sits in the gallery and spits on Ruth's face.

At Ruth's arraignment hearing the next day, her public defender is Kennedy McQuarrie. The state of Connecticut takes away Ruth's nursing license, and she's arrested. Two weeks later, Turk files a complaint against Ruth, claiming that she killed Davis. Just then, the charge nurse arrives, and a team tries to revive Davis. Davis stops breathing, so Ruth tries to help him-but Ruth isn't supposed to touch him per Turk's request, so she stops herself. The next morning, Davis's nurse asks Ruth to watch him. She performs the newborn exam, but Turk demands that not be allowed to touch his son, which angers Ruth. One October morning, Ruth is assigned to care for Brit and Davis. As an adult, Ruth feels like she's a respected member of her mostly white community. She was raised by a single mother, Mama, who was a domestic servant for a wealthy white family. Meanwhile, Ruth is the only Black labor and delivery nurse at Mercy-West Haven. They get married two years later and have a son, Davis, at the Mercy-West Haven hospital. A white power leader named Francis Mitchum reaches out to him, and he falls in love with Francis's daughter, Brit. Turk, angry and resentful about Tanner's death, is drawn into the white supremacy movement. After the other driver involved in the accident, a Black man, is acquitted, Turk's family falls apart: his parents separate, and Turk's mother begins drinking excessively. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: when does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean to truly love another? Praised for her “personal, detail-rich style” (Glamour), Jodi Picoult infuses this page-turning novel with heart, warmth, and startling candor, taking readers on an unforgettable emotional journey.Turk is 11 when his brother Tanner is killed in a car crash. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie - seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he’d grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. You can read this before Mercy PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.

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