Saving Max. Antoinette Van Heugten

Saving Max. Antoinette Van Heugten by Antoinette van Heugten. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780778304081.

Max Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mothers eyes. Until hes accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Maxs behavior has been getting worse—using drugs and lashing out. But she cant accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous. Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death. Trapped in a world of doubt and fear, barred from contacting Max, Danielle clings to the belief that her son is innocent. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son really a killer? With the justice system bearing down on them, Danielle steels herself to discover the truth, no matter what it is. Shell do whatever it takes to find the killer and to save her son from being destroyed by a system thats all too eager to convict him.