LEADER 01498oam 2200265z- 450 001 9910156215403321 005 20230913112557.0 010 $a1-63476-345-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985229 035 $a(BIP)055699033 035 $a(BIP)055397242 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985229 100 $a20210505c2016uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aMute Witness 210 $cDSP Publications 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 311 $a1-63476-344-0 330 8 $aThe abuse of a little boy turns a community against a loving gay couple, and nobody comes out of it unscathed.Sean and Austin have the perfect life: new love, a riverfront home, security. Their love for one another is only multiplied when Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason, visits on the weekends.And then their perfect world shatters.Jason goes missing.When the boy turns up days later, he's been so horribly abused he's lost the power to speak. Immediately small-town minds turn to the boy's gay father and his lover as the likely culprits. What was a warm, welcoming community becomes a lynching party out for blood.As Sean and Austin struggle to stay together amidst innuendo, the very real threat of Sean losing the son he loves emerges. Yet the true villain is much closer to home, intent on ensuring the boy's muteness is permanent. 610 $aFiction 700 $aReed$b Rick R.$01435498 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156215403321 996 $aMute Witness$93593079 997 $aUNINA