Before We Were Strangers
β Scribed by Novak, Brenda
- Book ID
- 110186623
- Publisher
- MIRA Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781488082979
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she's determined to uncover her family's dark secrets, even if they bury her.
Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn't sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound--the ominous thump before all went quiet.
In the morning, her mother was gone.
The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! That hadn't sat any better at the time than it did when Sloane moved out at eighteen, anxious to leave her small Texas hometown in search of anywhere else. But not even a fresh start working as a model in New York could keep the nightmares at bay. Or her fears that the domineering father she grew up with wasn't just difficult--he was deadly.
Now another traumatic loss forces Sloane to realize she owes it to her mother to find out the truth, even if it means returning to...
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