On a Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below, the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. Shelly left her math class and walked directly into the path of the bullets; two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, rushed from their classrooms to help the victims. A relationship begins that will eventually entangle these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of secrecy that will span forty years.
- ISBN10 0374228825
- ISBN13 9780374228828
- Publish Date 29 April 2014
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Imprint Sarah Crichton Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English