Dr. Nadine Lavoie is a psychiatrist totally involved in helping others heal from the various miseries in their lives. A young woman is brought into the hospital she's affiliated with one night from a suicide attempt. In trying to help this young woman, she's stunned to discover that her own past has somehow landed at her doorstep.

At least she thinks it has because there are large portions of her childhood that she simply cannot remember. When she was a child, her mother had taken her and her brother to stay with a small group of people who were living in a commune. Something terrible happened there that left Nadine with severe claustrophobia and no memory of what the event was. Now, Nadine is determined to ferret out whatever trauma her childhood may hold. However, there's someone who will keep her from remembering no matter what it takes.

Chevy Stevens has done it again with ALWAYS WATCHING! Her first two books in which Nadine's character plays a small, but pivotal role, were page turners of the most serious kind. Now, Ms. Stevens treats us to a complete book built around Nadine, and it is, indeed, a treat.

The sign of a great writer is when that writer can take words and craft them into stories that are compelling to the point that you're simply held in thrall by them. Chevy Stevens has that gift. She builds her stories and relates them in such a way that there's no putting down that book until you've found the answers to all of the mysteries. Yes, you can probably tell that I'm a huge fan of this woman's writing.

ALWAYS WATCHING takes a delicate and distasteful topic and shows the truth about it. She doesn't pull you into a happy and joyful fantasyland. Rather, she shows the real world in her stories. That doesn't mean it is all doom and gloom, though. Ms. Stevens seems to also believe that there's a redeeming quality to just about everyone. So while she unmasks the many faces of evil and exposes them for what they are she also offers hope that there are ways of fighting that evil and winning.

For readers that have devoured the first two books by Chevy Stevens, ALWAYS WATCHING is a must read. Although this one can stand on its own, if you haven't discovered this talented writer yet, you may want to have all three of these on hand to read in order.