Manche Wälder täuschen dich. Manche Pfade verraten dich. Manche Wege zerstören dich.
Top-Spannung made in Kanada: Der große neue Thriller der internationalen Bestseller-Autorin Chevy Stevens.
Seit Jahren verschwinden junge Frauen vom einsamen Cold Creek Highway im Nordwesten von Kanada. Das letzte Opfer ist noch nicht lange tot, der Mörder wurde nie gefunden. Nun geraten zwei gegensätzliche Frauen in sein Visier: Die toughe Hailey kennt die Wälder um Cold Creek wie ihre Westentasche. Als sie ein dunkles Geheimnis entdeckt, trifft sie eine unheilvolle Entscheidung. Ein Jahr später kommt Beth, ein Großstadtkind, nach Cold Creek - auf einer persönlichen Suche, die immer gefährlicher wird.
Tief und kalt ist der Ozean an der kanadischen Westküste, weit und rau das Land. Hier lebt Lindsey mit ihrer 17-jährigen Tochter Sophie. Vor elf Jahren ist sie in letzter Minute einem Albtraum entkommen, dem Leben mit ihrem kontrollsüchtigen und gewalttätigen Ehemann Andrew. Lindsey ist es gelungen, alle Spuren zu verwischen, ihre Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen und für sich und Sophie ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Als Andrew aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wird, kommt auch die Angst zurück. Erneut fühlt sich Lindsey bedroht. Doch noch weiß sie nicht, dass die wirkliche Gefahr woanders lauert ...
Die Schwestern Jess, Courtney und Dani sind 14, 16 und 17 Jahre alt und leben auf einer rauen Farm in Kanada. Als ein Streit mit ihrem gewalttätigen Vater aus dem Ruder läuft, müssen sie fliehen. Doch ihr Pick-up bleibt in einem abgelegenen Dorf liegen, und bald finden sie sich in einem furchtbaren Albtraum wieder. 18 Jahre später versuchen die drei noch immer, die Geschehnisse des Sommers von damals zu vergessen. Doch dann verschwindet eine der Schwestern ...
Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life.
Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move. Her new boyfriend is threatened. Her home is invaded, and her daughter is shadowed. Lindsey is convinced it's her ex-husband, even though he claims he's a different person. But has he really changed? Is the one who wants her dead closer to home than she thought?
With Never Let You Go, Chevy Stevens delivers a chilling, twisting thriller that crackles with suspense as it explores the darkest heart of love and obsession.
Die Schwestern Jess, Courtney und Dani sind 14, 16 und 17 Jahre alt und leben auf einer rauen Farm in Kanada. Als ein Streit mit ihrem gewalttätigen Vater aus dem Ruder läuft, müssen sie fliehen. Doch ihr Pick-up bleibt in einem abgelegenen Dorf liegen, und bald finden sie sich in einem furchtbaren Albtraum wieder. 18 Jahre später versuchen die drei noch immer, die Geschehnisse des Sommers von damals zu vergessen. Doch dann verschwindet eine der Schwestern ...
Als die rebellische Toni 18 Jahre alt ist, wird ihre jüngere Schwester Nicole am See ermordet. Man verurteilt Toni und ihren Freund Ryan dafür. Jahre später wird Toni auf Bewährung entlassen. Sie weiß nicht, was in jener Nacht geschehen ist. Sie weiß nur, dass der wahre Mörder noch nicht gefunden ist. Doch Toni will nur eins: die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und ein neues Leben beginnen. Aber was damals geschah, ist noch lange nicht vorbei, und nicht nur Tonis Bewährung steht auf dem Spiel ...
Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father’s fists. One night, a fight gets out of hand, and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control, and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation. They are left with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.
Eighteen years later, they are still trying to forget what happened that summer when one of the sisters goes missing and they are pulled back into their past. But this time there’s nowhere left to run.
As much a thriller as it is a deep exploration of the bonds among sisters, Those Girls is an unforgettable portrait of desperation, loyalty, and evil.
“Tense, believable, and action-packed, made more vibrant by Stevens’ sense of place.”—Kirkus Reviews
Als die rebellische Toni 18 Jahre alt ist, wird ihre jüngere Schwester Nicole am See ermordet. Man verurteilt Toni und ihren Freund Ryan dafür. Jahre später wird Toni auf Bewährung entlassen. Sie weiß nicht, was in jener Nacht geschehen ist. Sie weiß nur, dass der wahre Mörder noch nicht gefunden ist. Doch Toni will nur eins: die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und ein neues Leben beginnen. Aber was damals geschah, ist noch lange nicht vorbei, und nicht nur Tonis Bewährung steht auf dem Spiel ...
A stunning breakout novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing in which a woman is convicted of her sister’s murder Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She’s doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy—not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts Toni’s innocence; and certainly not the group of women who made Toni’s life miserable in high school and who may have darker secrets than anyone realizes. Before Toni can truly move on, she must risk everything to find out the truth and clear her name.
“Intense and disturbing—a terrific psychological thriller.”—Lee Child
Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest. But she has demons of her own — some she can barely think about and some she can’t even remember. Nadine’s mother was a wildly unpredictable manic depressive. There are whole chunks of Nadine’s life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia. And her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a new patient, Heather Simeon, is brought to the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine is assigned to work with her. As Nadine gently coaxes the story out of Heather, she learns of some troubling parallels to their lives. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her own history, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a commune by a river on remote Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group’s leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today? As the dual stories unfold, Nadine finds herself drawn to uncover her own secrets and learn why you can sometimes leave the past, but you can never escape.
All her life, Sara Gallagher has wondered about her birth parents. As an adopted child with two sisters who were born naturally to her parents, Sara did not have an ideal home life. The question of why she was given up for adoption has always haunted her. Finally, she is ready to take steps and to find closure. But some questions are better left unanswered. After months of research, Sara locates her birth mother - only to be met with horror and rejection. Then she discovers the devastating truth: Her mother was the only victim ever to escape a killer who has been hunting women every summer for decades. But Sara soon realizes the only thing worse than finding out about her father is him finding out about her. What if murder is in your blood? Never Knowing is a complex and compelling portrayal of one woman's quest to understand herself, her origins, and her family. That is, if she can survive....
On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabin - which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist - is a second narrative recounting the nightmare that follows her escape: her struggle to piece her shattered life back together, the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor, and the disturbing sense that things are far from over. The truth doesn't always set you free. Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal, and beautifully crafted debut novel about surviving the unsurvivable - and living to bear witness.
