Böcker av Deborah Bowman Stevens

Craven Falls, Ohio, is a small town with twenty-eight hundred residents-a town where everyone knows almost everyone else and where nothing ever happens, until one day two children disappear. Ashley Teodora spends her days juggling work, school, and her five-year-old daughter, Lily. She receives a phone call from her best friend, Carla Michaels, requiring her to go to Illinois to help Carla who is going through a tough time in her life. When Ashley returns home, she receives horrifying news that turns her world upside down; her precious Lily has been abducted!Reece Garran is released from prison after a five-year sentence. His primary goal is to find the woman whose memory kept him alive all those years while behind bars. This woman had captured his heart and wouldn't let go. When the transport bus pulls into the town of Craven Falls, Reece thinks it's just another small ordinary town until he finds a reason to stay.Catherine Teodora, Ashley's mother, loves crocheting, baking, gardening, and spending time with her granddaughter, Lily. On a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon, Catherine's world is torn to pieces. All she did was look away for a split-second, and Lily was gone!A family pulls together in a time of need, but what happens when those that are close to you are hiding behind twisted secrets? Will they stand by one another and find Lily? Or will the secrets tear this family apart?

... Hidden Secrets will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew...Carla Michaels's life isn't what she thought it was. She met her loving husband in college. She had a career as a teacher. All she ever wanted to complete her life was a baby. After five miscarriages, Carla had almost given up hope of ever becoming a mother.Then a devastating tragedy strikes and everything she had ever loved is gone-now she's left torn and shattered, wondering if she can go on with life.Unexpectedly, she receives an envelope full of books. Journals that were kept hidden from her. A mystery starts to play out as secrets are revealed. Will she get a second chance at life? Will the hidden secrets destroy her? Or will she find the strength to survive once she knows the truth?"Hidden Secrets" will pull at your heartstrings until the very last page. Some secrets are not meant to be hidden...

Three girls...Three dead bodies...The quiet town of Craven Falls is depleting in population. One by one... Scarlet Fitzgerald thought it would be fun to play a game on Laura Stevenson, a nobody at Craven Falls High. What happens when the game unleashes buried secrets Scarlet doesn't want anyone to know about? Secrets that could get someone killed, including herself. Three can play a game, but one of them ends up dead...

A novella about a boy named Mick and his struggles with life. His parent's divorce and a friend's suicide make his world unbearable. Each "cut" has a deeper meaning. A cry for help. "I spin my dad's Ruger SP101 revolver on the wood floor of my bedroom. Sometimes, just to see what it feels like, I place the tip of the gun against my temple, but I never once pull the trigger. NO!" "I'm more into the slice of the blade against my skin and the blood running down my arm." "It relieves so much pressure.""And I can breathe again..."