The Kindness of Strangers is a powerful study into how a tragic event can affect not just its direct victims, but everyone around them. Recently widowed Sarah Laden struggles with her professional catering business and holding her two troubled sons afloat in a small Ohio town. Things go from bad to worse when Sarah finds Jordan, young son of her best friend and neighbor Courtney Kendrick, sick and alone. She rushes him to the hospital only to find out that he is a child sexual abuse victim who had tried to commit suicide by overdose. Worse still, evidence comes up to implicate his parents as being the perpetrators — Sarah is horrified to learn that the food she had catered for the Kendricks was used attheir sex parties and that Courtney, a doctor, was trying to treat her son’s contracted gonorrhea on the sly. Can Sarah help a young, emotionally traumatized boy to heal? Can she and her two sons learn to heal themselves?

Read some of author Katrina Kittle’s thoughts behind her writing this book here.

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