* Addresses the abortion issue and makes readers re-think their view of Roe vs. When his father's termination date comes up and his mother re-enters his life, Nash must grapple with forgiveness, love, and eventually the heart and will of God as he races to save his father. Into this bleak setting steps tag man, John Nash, an unlikely and unwilling hero whose father wrote the Supreme Court majority opinion that made euthanasia mandatory. With reproduction done mechanically in a lab and the citizens being terminated for the 'greater good' life and love have lost all meaning. Those who resist are hunted down by tag men. It is the responsibility of each citizen to willingly be terminated at age 50. In the year 2038, abortions are the long-accepted means of population control, and euthanasia has become a means for cutting enormous health care costs.

Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, These Silent Woods is a poignant story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it all.In the year 2038, abortions are the long-accepted means of population control, and euthanasia has become a means for cutting enormous health care costs. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding - or finally face the sins of his past. Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred - and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her - and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide.įinch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.įor eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods.

Sins of the Fathers by Will Cunningham