The Beginnings in our Endings: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Threads That Hold Us Together

October 8, 2004: a phone call from the Abilene Police Department changed everything. Jenn Hogan's twenty-one-year-old life split into "before" and "after" the moment she learned her eighteen-year-old brother, Garrett, had been murdered--his throat cut, no signs of forced entry, no answers.

The Beginnings in Our Endings follows the twenty years that came after: the unsolved case that resurfaced and collapsed again, a marriage to a man who hid a terminal diagnosis until it was too late, and a ...