Quiet and stoic he does his day to day job paying no one any mind-except his very sweet and generous boss who has secrets of her very own. Keeping his head down and staying out of the way. So far Jack is staying true to his internal promises. Noticing the sign in Addie Peabody's window for a dishwasher he walks in takes the job and the apartment above it. He knew that if people got a whiff of his criminal past he would be run out of town-or worse. Jack had a plan to keep his head down and stay out of everyone's way. Jack arrives in Salem Falls with only one thing on his mind. Picoult wondered what it would be like to take one man and place him in a modern day "witch-trial". If any readers has been lucky enough to read the Arthur Miller's play THE CRUCIBLE or is familiar with the SALEM WITCH TRIALS of 1962 will be pleasantly surprised and thrilled to read-not an abdatation-but truly a wok of art. Picoult's writing form she grips you from the moment you read the book. All I knew is that I was intrigued by Jack St Bride's story and how he would deal with the upcoming struggles. I have to admit I wasn't really sure what I was in for when I read the back cover. New York Times Bestselling author, Jodi Picoult's SALEM FALLS was the very first book that cinched it for me as a life long fan of hers. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history… He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls.
Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Putnam's Sons) 2001 paperback by Washington Square Press, 2002.
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