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In The Grip Of It by Sheena Kamal

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Also by Sheena Kamal:

No Going Back, April 2020
Paperback / e-Book
The Lost Ones, July 2018
Paperback (reprint)
It All Falls Down, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
In The Grip Of It, May 2018
e-Book
The Lost Ones, August 2017
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IN THE GRIP OF IT
By: Sheena Kamal

Witness Impulse
May 2018
On Sale: May 15, 2018
128 pages
ISBN: 0062879332
EAN: 9780062879332
Kindle: B07BK2442H
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Mystery Psychological | Novella / Short Story

On a surveillance assignment for a child custody case, PI- in-training Nora Watts finds herself ensconced in a small farming community on a beautiful hippie island in the Pacific Northwest, a place with a reputation for being welcoming to outsiders. But when she arrives there, she discovers her welcome quickly wears thin. Perhaps too quickly.

Salt Spring Island, with a history as a refuge for African Americans fleeing the bonds of slavery, is not a place of refuge for herβ€”and, she suspects, may not be for the people who live there, either.

As she investigates, nothing about this remote community seems to add up. It gets personal as Nora confronts her own complicated feelings toward her estranged daughter and becomes increasingly concerned about the child she’s been tasked to surveil. She discovers that small, idyllic communities can hide very big secrets.