Chapter 23 Summary

As Ruth and Ray lay together at Ray's house, Ray reads Ruth's journal entries. He reads of all the spots where people have been murdered. Ruth wakes and says that she has much to tell him of what she has seen. Ruana bakes apple pies for them to wake up to. Ray's mother is thinking of divorcing her husband and at the same time is glad her son has a girlfriend.

At the Salmon house, Buckley receives a drum set from Hal weeks before his thirteenth birthday. Jack is ready to come home from the hospital, and Grandma Lynn, Samuel, and Hal prepare for Jack and Abigail's return. The parents arrive with Buckley and Lindsey, and as they are getting out of the car Lindsey asks her mother, "Are you going to hurt him again?" (page 317). Abigail assures her daughter that she will...