Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry

Book Description
When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into the distance, she begins a bone-chilling swim nearly a mile to shore with a tiny passenger on her back.

Surprisingly, he speaks only French. He’ll acknowledge that his name is Paul; otherwise, he’s resolutely mute.

Troy assumes that Paul’s frantic parents will be in touch with the police or the press. But what follows is a shocking and deafening silence. And Troy, a freelance writer, finds herself as fiercely determined to protect Paul as she is to find out what happened to him. What she uncovers will take her into a world of wealth and privilege and heedless self-indulgence—a world in which the murder of a child is not unthinkable. She’ll need skill and courage to survive and protect her charge and herself.

Sara J. Henry’s powerful and compelling Learning to Swim will move and disturb readers right up to its shattering conclusion.

My thoughts
While on a ferry, Troy Chance thinks she sees a small child fall off another ferry. Quickly, se dives into the water and heads towards the fallen object (which is a six-year-old boy). Since no one from either ferry saw the boy or her jump in the water, she swims to safety. On shore, she finds out the boy only speaks French.

Thus, beings the tale in Learning to Swim. From the onset, this mystery kept my spellbound from the moment of the rescue until the finale. Why Troy doesn’t go to the police and tries on her own to find the truth of who may have tossed the boy overboard is a few of the questions that popped into this reader’s head. There are twists and turns that keeps the story exciting. A very exciting debut from Ms. Henry.

Disclosure: I won this book through a giveaway on the nomoregrumpybookseller blog site. Thanks Becky!