A Better Tragedy

There are times when Sarah Moore wonders if she spent the first twelve years of her life living inside a continuous episode of Cops. White trash from the moment of conception, neglected and abused, Sarah was born into that infamous outpost of civilization known as a trailer park outside of Buffalo. Often mesmerized by the twirling blue lights of the police cars that were frequent visitors to her doorstep, Sarah would fantasize about being safe, understanding early that normalcy is a nebulous concept and salvation exists for only a carefully selected few.

Sarah’s life is changed forever the day her brother, Billy, and her mother’s live in boyfriend, George, stab each other to death at the foot of her bed and she becomes the foster child of one of her former teachers. Knowing that Billy’s death created the possibility of escape, Sarah realizes that good and evil have an incestuously symbiotic relationship.

Brilliant, beautiful and driven Sarah graduates as valedictorian of her high school class and enters the local university. Despite everything, she carefully nurtures seeds of hope that life can still hold magic for her. Desperate for a home and family of her own, she marries campus heartthrob Paul Hunter, only to discover that the normalcy she craves has an inexplicable dark side, while magic sometimes hums a nonsense tune.

A Better Tragedy reveals secrets, deceptions and ugly truths all with a biting and edgy humor.

A Better Tragedy is the companion book to Wire Mother in the Christian Scott - Sarah Hunter series.