Duchess Day Radley is thirteen years old, furious at the world, and convinced she’s an outlaw. With a five-year-old brother to raise and a mother she can’t count on, Duchess has learned to rely on no one.
Chief Walker hasn’t left their small California town, but the past keeps finding him anyway. Decades ago, his testimony helped send his best friend to prison. Now that friend is back. And the storm that follows his return threatens everything.
Told through the eyes of a girl too young to carry so much and a man too old to fix what’s broken, We Begin at the End is a haunting crime novel about guilt, justice, and the families we choose when the ones we’re born into fall apart.
