Right now, I am on my own. On my own, to find courage I haven't the strength for. Courage that dangles just out of reach. I lived lie as truth and illusion as reality in the picture perfect San Francisco Bay Area family until those cracks emerged. How can I forgive, and is that even possible?
"Then we hear the darkness. Like a flash of cold lightning. So terrified. The darkness is down the stairs and in the yard. So quickly.
I know I cannot escape. I have tried that before. It never works.
Help me, please! Make me safe! Please!"
Help is coming, but not from a place I expect. Not all illusion is imaginary.
I must peel away the veneer to confront the darkest of imaginable evils here, in the midst of my family. Through the paradox of loving parents, perfect husband, wonderful children, and one fluffy black protector poodle, my only path forward will take me to depths I cannot face.
* If you enjoy tense psychological mysteries with a touch of fantasy, a whole lot of suspense, and jolting twists you don't see coming, then you will love this book. *
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Kirsten West is an author of adventure, fantasy, science fiction, and psychological fiction for adults and youth. She tells stories of triumph over evil where the magic is never spoken aloud, but lies beneath to peek out now and again when it is truly needed.
Kirsten is getting on in age and has a rather short attention span which led her through varied and sundry careers including but sadly not limited to a scientist, a biophysicist, a groveling graduate student, a market research analyst, a scuba instructor and divemaster, a volunteer aquarium docent, and a serial start-up sales and marketing flunky. She lives with her patient husband and devoted pup in a 110 year old California bungalow neatly held down through the occasional earthquake by thousands upon thousands of books. Besides the obligatory hobby of fixing bits of falling down house, Kirsten spends her leisure time taming her wild, native garden, completing projects as a marketing consultant, walking her pup, and slowly knitting blankets and scarves for her children.