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Book Run  Hide Escape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angelin Sydney
  • Publisher : Massachusetts Books
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 1393973981
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Run Hide Escape written by Angelin Sydney and published by Massachusetts Books. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Run, Hide, Escape is unputdownable from beginning to end. Former Navy Seals Frank "Dog" Wright is recovering from PTSD in the safety and tranquillity of his sanctuary, a shack deep in the Appalachian Mountain Ranges. But his time alone is interrupted by the ghostly spirit of his deceased Team Leader, the legendary Joseph "Tennessee" Coleman. His message? 'Save Anita for me." Anita Ferguson is Tennessee's aunt. Initially, Frank refuses to listen. He digs his heels in until he could no longer ignore the persistent haunting appeals from his former Boss. Finally, Frank accepts the task, but now he has a problem. How does he explain to Anita that her dead nephew is speaking to him and telling him to protect her? He rehearses while he waits for her: 'Hey, your nephew's ghost sent me to keep you safe.' It sounds daft. More to the point, he sounds as though he needs to be institutionalised. Eventually, he is able to convince Anita that he is telling the truth and he isn't insane. She allows him to shadow her for a day. Thankfully she did because her life is suddenly upended when someone shot at her. From then on, it is up to Frank to keep her safe and to get to the bottom of who wants her dead. It would take all his special forces skills to do so. Would he be able to keep her safe? And, would there be a chance for them to be together? To find out, get a copy NOW.

Book Run  Hide  Fight Back

Download or read book Run Hide Fight Back written by April Henry and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six teens must band together to survive after a shooting breaks out in this high-stakes thriller by New York Times-bestselling author April Henry. When a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, a diverse group of teens ends up trapped behind a store’s security shutter. To her own surprise, seventeen-year-old Miranda finds the others looking to her as their leader. But she’s hiding a big secret—and she’s not the only one. The group has only three choices: Run, hide, or fight back. The wrong decision will have fatal consequences. In her masterful style, April Henry crafts an unrelenting thriller with empowering teen heroes. For fans of the breakout YA mysteries This Is Where It Ends and One of Us Is Lying. Christy Ottaviano Books

Book Parkland

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  • Author : Dave Cullen
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2019-02-12
  • ISBN : 006288297X
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Parkland written by Dave Cullen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller "A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. It succeeds as an in-depth report about the “generational campaign” in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy, a bi-partisan movement advocating serious gun reform.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders—inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement. Nineteen years ago, Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High, even before most of the SWAT teams went in. While writing his acclaimed account of the tragedy, he suffered two bouts of secondary PTSD. He covered all the later tragedies from a distance, working with a cadre of experts cultivated from academia and the FBI, but swore he would never return to the scene of a ghastly crime. But in March 2018, Cullen went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School because something radically different was happening. In nearly twenty years witnessing the mass shootings epidemic escalate, he was stunned and awed by the courage, anger, and conviction of the high school’s students. Refusing to allow adults and the media to shape their story, these remarkable adolescents took control, using their grief as a catalyst for change, transforming tragedy into a movement of astonishing hope that has galvanized a nation. Cullen unfolds the story of Parkland through the voices of key participants whose diverse personalities and outlooks comprise every facet of the movement. Instead of taking us into the mind of the killer, he takes us into the hearts of the Douglas students as they cope with the common concerns of high school students everywhere—awaiting college acceptance letters, studying for mid-term exams, competing against their athletic rivals, putting together the yearbook, staging the musical Spring Awakening, enjoying prom and graduation—while moving forward from a horrific event that has altered them forever. Deeply researched and beautifully told, Parkland is an in-depth examination of this pivotal moment in American culture—and an up-close portrait that reveals what these extraordinary young people are like. As it celebrates the passion of these astonishing students who are making history, this spellbinding book is an inspiring call to action for lasting change.

Book Run  Hide  Repeat

Download or read book Run Hide Repeat written by Pauline Dakin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors An unforgettable family tale of deception and betrayal, love and forgiveness Pauline Dakin spent her childhood on the run. Without warning, her mother twice uprooted her and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Disturbing events interrupt their outwardly normal life: break-ins, car thefts, even physical attacks on a family friend. Many years later, her mother finally revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. But the truth was even more bizarre. Gradually, Dakin's fears give way to suspicion. She puts her journalistic training to work and discovers that the Mafia threat was actually an elaborate web of lies. As she revisits her past, Dakin uncovers the human capacity for betrayal and deception, and the power of love to forgive. Run, Hide, Repeat is a memoir of a childhood steeped in unexplained fear and menace. Gripping and suspenseful, it moves from Dakin's uneasy acceptance of her family's dire situation to bewildered anger. As compelling and twisted as a thriller, Run Hide Repeat is an unforgettable portrait of a family under threat, and the resilience of family bonds.

Book Run and Hide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pankaj Mishra
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 0374607532
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Run and Hide written by Pankaj Mishra and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man’s humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth—what it means on a human level, and what it costs. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction." —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, enabled through great sacrifice by his low-caste parents, is seemingly his golden ticket out of a life plagued by everyday cruelties and deprivations. At the predominantly male campus, he meets two students from similar backgrounds. Unlike Arun—scarred by his childhood, and an uneasy interloper among go-getters—they possess the sheer will and confidence to break through merciless social barriers. The alumni of IIT eventually go on to become the financial wizards of their generation, working hard and playing hard from East Hampton to Tuscany—the beneficiaries of unprecedented financial and sexual freedom. But while his friends play out Gatsby-style fantasies, Arun fails to leverage his elite education for social capital. He decides to pursue the writerly life, retreating to a small village in the Himalayas with his aging mother. Arun’s modest idyll is one day disrupted by the arrival of a young woman named Alia, who is writing an exposé of his former classmates. Alia, beautiful and sophisticated, draws Arun back to the prospering world where he must be someone else if he is to belong. When he is implicated in a terrible act of violence committed by his closest friend from IIT, Arun will have to reckon with the person he has become. Run and Hide is Pankaj Mishra’s powerful story of achieving material progress at great moral and emotional cost. It is also the story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships.

Book Run   Hide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beatrix Hollow
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2021-09-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Run Hide written by Beatrix Hollow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters--shadows, gills, wings, and more. The things I fear crave me... and they've been here the whole time. Hiding, waiting, and wanting. Lurking, sneaking, and watching. Traveling the country camping was supposed to be an escape from the strange and unusual that clings to my family. My family's calling to fame terrifies me. The ghosts, the hauntings, the supernatural--I want nothing to do with it. Too bad it wants everything to do with me. Where did the trip first go wrong? Maybe when an old friend with dark secrets insisted on coming--a rising rock star whose fame is now putting me in the limelight. Then there is the West Virginia local legend. A monster myth of cryptid fame. A campfire story. But there are those that believe--that are willing to do whatever it takes to capture the monster in the mountains. Maybe even use humans as bait. Maybe even use me. Author Note: This is a monster romance with multiple love interests the female lead will not choose between. There are mature themes including spice, significant violence, language, and etc. This is book one of a series and will be slow build, meaning not all love interests are introduced in book one.

Book Hide

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  • Author : Lisa Gardner
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2007-01-30
  • ISBN : 0553903403
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Hide written by Lisa Gardner and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have good reason to be afraid. . . . It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. There’s no place to run. . . . Bobby’s only lead is wrapped around a dead woman’s neck. Annabelle Granger has been in hiding for as long as she can remember. Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. But what—or who—her family was running from, she never knew. Now a body is unearthed from a grave, wearing a necklace bearing Annabelle’s name, and the danger is too close to escape. This time, she’s not going to run. You know he will find you. . . . The new threat could be the dead psychopath’s copycat, his protégé—or something far more terrifying. Dodge knows the only way to find him is to solve the mystery of Annabelle Granger, and to do that he must team up with his former lover, partner, and friend D. D. Warren from the Boston P.D. But the trail leads back to a woman from Bobby’s past who may be every bit as dangerous as the new killer—a beautiful survivor-turned-avenger with an eerie link to Annabelle. From its tense opening pages to its shocking climax, Hide is a thriller that delves into our deepest, darkest fears. Where there is no one to trust. Where there is no place left to hide. BONUS: This edition includes a new afterword: Lights, Camera, Hide the movie!

Book Heads You Win

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  • Author : Jeffrey Archer
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2018-11-06
  • ISBN : 1250172519
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Heads You Win written by Jeffrey Archer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heads You Win is international #1 bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel, with a final twist that will shock even his most ardent of fans. Leningrad, Russia, 1968: From an early age it is clear that Alexander Karpenko is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, Alexander and his mother will have to escape Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they have an irreversible choice: board a container ship bound for America or one bound for Great Britain. Alexander leaves the choice to a toss of a coin... In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow Alexander through triumph and defeat as he sets out on parallel lives as Alex in New York and Sasha in London. As this unique story unfolds, both come to realize that to find their destiny they must face the past they left behind as Alexander in Russia.

Book Escape To Redemption

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  • Author : Peter M. Parr
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-24
  • ISBN : 1785352288
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Escape To Redemption written by Peter M. Parr and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josie only had the gun to frighten Curtis Rook, but his son disturbed her. One startled reflex and now he's dead. Josie flees to Poland leaving her boyfriend Snaz to take the rap. A reformed criminal offers her refuge from the police and the chance to begin a new life, but she cannot hide from her guilt. As the stakes rise, Josie begins to realise that only her own forgiveness can set her free. Fast-paced and original, Peter M. Parr's contemporary take on Crime and Punishment challenges traditional ideas about guilt and redemption, and the meaning of forgiveness.

Book The Hidden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Avery Blake
  • Publisher : Sterling & Stone LLC
  • Release : 2022-01-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book The Hidden written by Avery Blake and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SciFi aficionado Avery Blake and sorceress of suspense Ninie Hammon team up to bring you The Hidden. This is the third book in The Taken Saga, a terrifying tale of alien invasion told from the perspective of three very special young people. The Flood is coming. Star has a vision that she paints on the gymnasium floor of the Zion Village: a black starship shooting a beam of light at the polar ice caps, melting them and flooding the world. Papa Eagle Feather claims that Star’s vision is the fulfillment of a prophecy about a child from the stars who will save her people. With her warning, they’ve been given six days advance notice — six days to figure out how to survive the flood. Can they build “Noah’s Ark” in less than a week? Noah says they don’t have to build anything — they already have an ark. They can survive underground in the hundreds of miles of the labyrinthine tunnels and chambers of Matheson Caverns — but they only have a few days to load three thousand people and supplies inside. Then Paco shows up from California with an army to kill the Kentuckians and steal their refuge. As the battle between them rages, the flood shows up a day earlier than they’d calculated. Now it’s a desperate race against time. Star, Noah, and Papa Eagle Feather must fight their way through Paco and his armed killers, scrambling to get thousands of people underground as the water floods the valley below the caverns and begins to rise up toward the only entrance. The Hidden is the third book in the new alien invasion series, The Taken Saga, by Avery Blake and Ninie Hammon. Get The Hidden and continue your new favorite science fiction series today!

Book Return to Cameron Country  The Cameron Series   1

Download or read book Return to Cameron Country The Cameron Series 1 written by Angelin Sydney and published by Massachusetts Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Cameron Country is a contemporary romance that will leave you breathless. It’s a superbly written action-adventure thriller that explodes with romantic sexiness that can only be described as sensual. * What Happens after the fairy tale ending? Belle didn’t know Captain Bryce Mabo ‘Wolf’ Cameron well, but she knew one thing for certain: she loved him and would happily follow him anywhere, even to the end of the Earth. She left her high-pressure job as a forensic accountant in New York to follow him to his homeland. What she didn’t know was just how hard life would be once she got to the end of the Earth, otherwise known as Australia’s Gulf Savannah. They got married in a whirlwind. Soon, the realisation has set in; she knew even less about the area around his home than she did him. Belle has to confront being a step-­mom, strange and dangerous wildlife, scorching heat, thick dust, and deadly cyclones. Worse still, action man Bryce was often called away for clandestine missions which were fraught with danger. Each time he went, she was never certain he'd be able to return. Will love be enough to keep Belle with Bryce, or will the harsh world of her romantic warrior be too much for her? * Join Belle as she learns just how much romance and regret can happen after the rings are exchanged and the ‘I do’s’ are said in this unmissable follow-up to Lifesaver in a Bikini.

Book The Dark Place

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mildred Davis
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2018-01-17
  • ISBN : 1479436356
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book The Dark Place written by Mildred Davis and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Edgar Award-winning author of They Buried a Man comes a novel of strangling horror! "As a thriller or serious novel, powerful and rewarding." -- Anthony Boucher, New York Times Mildred B. Davis is an American novelist whose books generally fall into the suspense/mystery genre. Katherine (Davis) Roome, her daughter, and a published author herself, helped Mildred break a 30-year publishing silence by working with her to turn some previously unpublished manuscripts into the Murder in Maine series.

Book Poems From The Heart Mind Body And Soul

Download or read book Poems From The Heart Mind Body And Soul written by Aleja Bennett and published by Author Aleja Bennett. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relax your mind while drinking a nice cup of tea. Sit by the fire with your mate as these poems take you to an all so familiar state of mind. Heart-mind-body and soul will take control of your thoughts, fantasies, dreams and inner self. Enjoy the everyday realities of these outstanding poems. You will appreciate-think and relate to what the I was feeling-thinking as these poems were written. My main focus has been to help others over come childhood abuse-homelessness-rejections-false truths-addictions-unfortunate adoptions-low self esteem and broken relationships in all that I write.

Book Never Say Never  Gay Romance

Download or read book Never Say Never Gay Romance written by Felice Stevens and published by Felice Stevens. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scorching Hot Enemies to Lovers Gay Romance One taste leaves them wanting more… INGREDIENTS: Francisco “Frisco” Martinelli. Hot and spicy. Beautiful on the outside, dark and damaged on the inside. Handle with extreme caution. Salvatore “Torre” Rossi. Sweet with a kick of spice. Gentle at first, can become swiftly and irrevocably addictive to the heart. A RECIPE FOR ROMANCE One snobby food critic who doesn’t believe in love One down-to-earth food blogger who does Add a touch of suspicious brother A heaping serving of best friend who’s been waiting for this to happen Blend with secret identities, past hurts, and judgments. Stir in equal portions of desperate longing, desire, fear, and snarky humor. Set over open flame, step back, and wait for sparks to fly. Serve as is for an explosive love story that will leave you with a full heart and a ridiculously happy smile at the end. This is the third book in the Lost in New York series but can be read as a stand alone.

Book Justice   Complete Series

Download or read book Justice Complete Series written by Lexy Timms and published by Dark Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Best Selling Author, Lexy Timms, comes JUSTICE a billionaire crime romance series that'll send your heart racing. Book 1 Rachel Evans has the life most people could only dream of, except she hates it. She tries desperately to avoid getting sucked into the family business and hides her wealth from her friends. She’s seen her brother trapped in that life, and doesn’t want it. When her father dies in a plane crash, she reluctantly steps in to become the vice president of her family’s company, Syco Pharmaceuticals. Detective Adrien Deluca is called in to look at the crash. While Adrien immediately suspects not everything about the case is what it seems, he has trouble convincing his partner. However, when they uncover a web of deceit that the crash was no accident, the detective needs find the proof. To what lengths will Deluca go to get it? Book 2 Rachel Evans steps in to the vice presidentcy of Syco Pharmaceuticals. When there's a sudden rise in billionaire’s being murdered, Rachel begins to suspect everyone, as does the lead detective assigned to the case. Detective Deluca and his partner, Hunters, can’t seem to catch a break in the serial billionaire murders. When the case hits close to home, Deluca steps back to let Chase lead the investigation. As time moves too fast and the evidence too slow, Deluca begins to worry that the girl he’s falling for might be the next victim. Can they catch the killer before it’s too late, and Rachel ends up the next victim? Book 3 Rachel’s life is crumbling before her eyes. One by one her family is dying around her. Everything she depended on, everything she thought about her life has turned out to be wrong, and now, with no one else to turn to, she closes herself off from the rest of the world. Detective Deluca watches her struggle, unable to help, especially since he suspects Rachel’s mother might be the one who set everything in motion. A small silver key seems to be their only clue to find out who’s stalking her family. When Rachel goes missing Deluca has to watch helplessly as the case is taken away and handed off to the FBI. He can feel the minutes slipping away, every one of them taking Rachel further and further away from him. All Deluca and Chase Hunter, his partner, have left is Rachel’s key. Will it be enough to find the murderer, and more importantly find Rachel, before she comes the next victim? He promised to protect her, but it seems like it is a promise he won’t be able to keep. Book 4 If Rachel felt her life had been turned upside down before, she sure doesn’t know what direction it’s going now. Detective Adrian Deluca rescued her from the warehouse, but he couldn’t rescue her from all the other problems crowding around her. Her dead brother, who’s actually very much alive and killing people across the city, the loss of her father, and the pressure of a company she never wanted, are weighing her down to the point she almost wishes she had stayed tied up in the warehouse. Adrian can only watch her struggles from the sidelines. He tries to prop her up as much as he can, but the problem of Erik lies heavy between them. They both know it’s only a matter of time before everything comes crashing down, but neither knows what form that last straw will take. As troubles mount, they are so focused on Erik, neither see the bigger danger looming ahead. A threat no one has anticipated, and knows how to stop. Adrian vowed to protect her, but he has no idea just how hard that promise is going to be to keep. Search Terms: romantic suspence, Motorcycle Action Adventure, dark erotica, dark romance, suspense, murder mystery romance, romance, contemporary romance, new adult romance, mystery romance, Romantic Action & Adventure, action & adventure, thriller romance, thriller suspence romance, suspense romance

Book Barren Heiress Returns With Quadruplet

Download or read book Barren Heiress Returns With Quadruplet written by Havilworth and published by StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sign them. Now!" He threw the papers across the bed and they fluttered in front of me, taunting me with words boldly spelled on them. Divorce. My blood had fizzled out. I refused to believe this was happening. I had never filled myself with delusions of Ezekiel ever loving me, but I had truly believed we could both tolerate our obligations to each other. Perhaps I was just blinded by love. "You're breaking this marriage because of Ellen? Because of my sister?" **** As though the death of her grandmother and a painful divorce weren't enough torture for one day, Camille Manor stands frozen in the face of a family annulment. Letting go of her past life, she leaves for the States where she aims to start life afresh and raise her children not even the father knew about. Things change when she receives a shocking letter that changes everything. Now, after four years of staying away, Camille must return to London to face the lurking shadows of her past. But with her ex-husband back in her life, will her plans for revenge go smoothly? In the midst of exposing buried family secrets, she struggles to tame the feelings she still has for Zeke despite his betrayal while hiding his paternity over her children. Meanwhile, she takes down the Manor's one by one in a bid to reclaim the honor that was once hers.

Book Our Little Lies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gemma Metcalfe
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2021-09-01
  • ISBN : 1504073282
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Our Little Lies written by Gemma Metcalfe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of marriage and deception that asks: Is it better to comfort with a lie, or to kill with the truth? Grace and Justin have been trying for a family for years. So, when Grace finally announces that she is pregnant, she isn’t prepared for Justin’s reaction. Why does he act so strangely? Why does he leave and never return? Two years later, while at the seaside with baby Daniel, Grace sees Justin—who is desperate to come home, but can’t reveal the reason he left. However, Grace too is harboring a secret, one that won’t just hurt Justin—but will destroy him completely. One thing is certain: their secrets will be exposed. And when they are, neither Grace nor Justin will be prepared for what follows . . . “Gemma Metcalfe is a fresh new talent.” —Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House