This was a great book. The characters and emotions were so real, I got totally immersed in the story. Laura Neuman runs from California to Boston away from a terrible secret. She is only 18 and is now an orphan. Her flashbacks to her mother's battle with cancer and death are heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Laura gets a job in a restaurant and befriends Nadia an artist, in love with a married man. She is followed home by a strange man in a baseball cap, then falls in love with David who allows her to tell her awful secret.

After her mother died, Laura goes into deep depression and feels a great loss, which she still bears. Her father does not help her and he ends up remarrying a woman he had an affair with. Laura doesn't forgive him. When he gets in a car accident and ends up paralyzed, he asks Laura to do the unthinkable and this haunts her all the way to Boston.

I found it so interesting the play between the two religions and faiths and the intense struggle to believe in God and an afterlife. This continual doubt is part of many folks lives and does it make a person's life better to believe or not?

David is not who Laura thinks and she escapes relatively unharmed and the angel she speaks to is released. Laura begins again. ( )

The Tracks of Angels by Kelly Dwyer (1995) ( )