Elle Harrison
Oceanview Publishing
January 2017
On Sale: January 3, 2017
304 pages ISBN: 1608091910 EAN: 9781608091911 Kindle: B01H7H5EFY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Since her husbandβs murder two years earlier, life hasnβt been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. Sheβs selling her house and delving into new experiencesβlike learning trapeze.
Just before the first day of school, Elle learns that a former student, Ty Evans, has been released from juvenile detention where he served time for killing his abusive father. Within days of his release, Elleβs school principal, whoβd tormented Ty as a child, is brutally murdered. So is a teacher at the school. And Tyβs former girlfriend. All the victims have links to Ty.
Tyβs younger brother, Seth, is in Elleβs class. When Seth shows up at school beaten and bruised, Elle reports the abuse, and authorities remove Seth and his older sister, Katie, from their home. Is Ty the abuser?
Ty seeks Elle out, confiding that sheβs the only adult heβs ever trusted. She tries to be open-minded, even wonders if heβs been wrongly condemned. But when sheβs assaulted in the night, she suspects that Ty is her attacker. Is he a serial killer? Is she his next intended victim?
Before Elle discovers the truth, sheβs caught in a deadly trap that challenges her deepest convictions about guilt and innocence, childhood and family. Pushed to her limits, sheβs forced to face her fears and apply new skills in a deadly fight to survive.