Innocent

Innocent by Eric Walters

A fire in an orphanage requires people to leave shortly before they graduate. Luckily, one girl has a job lined up with a rich family in Kingston. She also learns that she was originally born there and that her father was jailed for murdering her mother. She learns more details once she arrives. The family she is working for knows everybody and are very wealthy. One son is the mayor. Another is "special". The special brother now carries around a shovel. He remembers everything. He likes to keep to routines. He also enjoys his pigeons. She has an encounter with a young policeman who eventually becomes her boyfriend. They work together to find the truth about her father. It became more and more clear that her dad may be innocent. However, my initial suspicions of who it was were wrong. It shows the challenges of a small town life where everybody knows everyone and those in power can get away with anything.