{"title":"MERCY","subtitle":"Making Room for a Second Chance","author":"Gayle C. James","kind":"short-novel","hook":"Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask.","description":"Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask. Gayle C. James explores the relationship between a second chance, restitution, and the boundaries that make trust possible.","shortSocialCaption":"MERCY by Gayle C. James. Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask. Read the complete short novel free: https://goodnovels.org/books/mercy/","longSocialCaption":"Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask.\n\nWhat makes a second chance different from pretending that the first injury never happened?\n\nMERCY by Gayle C. James. Read the complete GoodNovels.org Short Edition free online, or download EPUB and PDF. No account or email signup is required.\nhttps://goodnovels.org/books/mercy/","firstLookExcerpt":"MERCY by Gayle C. James\n\nNearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask.\n\nA question to carry into the story: What makes a second chance different from pretending that the first injury never happened?\n\nRead the complete GoodNovels.org Short Edition free online, or download EPUB and PDF. No account or email signup is required. https://goodnovels.org/books/mercy/","canonicalUrl":"https://goodnovels.org/books/mercy/","formats":["browser","epub","pdf"],"accessPolicy":"daily-complimentary-short-edition","accessLabel":"Read the complete short novel free. No account or email signup is required.","cover":{"publicUrl":"/images/short-editions/mercy-e1188f466f9a-800.jpg","alt":"MERCY: Making Room for a Second Chance by Gayle C. James, illustrated book cover","variants":[{"url":"/images/short-editions/mercy-e1188f466f9a-400.jpg","width":400,"height":600},{"url":"/images/short-editions/mercy-e1188f466f9a-800.jpg","width":800,"height":1200},{"url":"/images/short-editions/mercy-e1188f466f9a-1024.jpg","width":1024,"height":1536}]},"discussionPrompt":"What makes a second chance different from pretending that the first injury never happened?","guide":{"kind":"single-question-starting-point","discussionPrompt":"What makes a second chance different from pretending that the first injury never happened?","questions":[{"text":"What makes a second chance different from pretending that the first injury never happened?","spoilerClassification":"safe"}],"organizerUrl":"https://goodnovels.org/book-clubs/","fullTitleSpecificGuideAvailable":false},"slug":"mercy","availableFormats":["browser","epub","pdf"]}