Behind Closed Doors
Two kidnappings, thirty years apart. Can Stacey face her own dark past in order to save her stepdaughter?
When Stacey's ex-husband turns up on her doorstep begging her to help save his kidnapped thirteen-year-old daughter, Lyra, the terror is all too familiar. Stacey's own violent kidnapping thirty years ago was never solved, and while a severe case of amnesia spares her from recalling the specific horrors, she remembers enough...
Stacey knows her father never paid the ransom--she has the missing pinkie finger to prove it. She knows she was only saved because of an anonymous tip-off to the police. And she knows her captor was never apprehended.
Lyra's kidnappers have made it clear the police must not get involved. But Stacey can't shake the eerie similarities between the two cases, and she'll use whatever she can, from her journalistic powers to her shady contacts, to save Lyra from the same nightmare. Desperate to find any link between Lyra's abduction and her own, Stacey forces herself to revisit her forgotten, traumatic past for clues.
But can she make sense of the terrible secrets she unearths in time to save Lyra? And if she does, is she ready to face her own tormentor?
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781662506116
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Carina P.
Publishing December 6th
Carol is a new to me author, and I can not wait to check out her other books!
A nice amount of surprise, greed, lies and suspense. Some of it was far fetched and hard to believe (don't want to give it away), but for the most part I liked the book.
So many questions, so many possibilities of who the kidnapper could be.
Stacey was a victim of a kidnapping for ransom when she was a teen. Daughter of a prominent judge, the kidnapper for sure figured they'd get paid what they asked. Stacey is missing a finger to show they were wrong. After an anonymous tip to the police, Stacey was found but her kidnapper was never apprehended.
Now 30 years later, Stacey's ex-husband, Jake shows up at her house, frantic because his daughter, Lyra, was kidnapped and they are asking for a ransom, and specifically no police involvement.
Stacey can't help but think it's the same person. Too many similarities to her liking.
Could this really be the same person who kidnapped Stacey all of those years ago? If so, why come back now after all of this time?
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