After eight years of being held hostage Lily finds her captor has made a mistake, he left the bolt on the door unlocked. Risking everything she grabs her daughter and escapes. They run with everything they have and Lily soon realizes that she is not very far from home. So she keeps going and finally someone sees her and takes her home. After eight years, she see her mother and her new life starts. She knows who has held her all these years and she is determined to make him pay.
BABY DOLL deals with issues no one should ever have to. After being held for eight years Lily and her daughter have to start over. Lily's twin sister has been destroyed by her disappearance, as has her mother. Her father died of a heart attack not long after she went missing. Life has changed for everyone. Lily is changed, her daughter has never known life outside of the basement. Now they must learn to live again. All the while they must put away the man who did this to Lily.
Hollie Overton has jumped into a dark world and deep dangerous recess of the mind with BABY DOLL. What kind of person takes and abuses a girl for eight years. How must a human adapt to survive that? Lily has a great supporting cast that helps her recover and you pull for her from the start. You hear yourself yelling "RUN LILY RUN." You want to read this book Holley Overton makes you sit up and think, feel and enjoy a book.
You've been held captive in one room, mentally and
physically abused every day, since you were sixteen years old.
Then, one night, you realize your captor has left the door
to your cell unlocked.
For the first time in eight years, you're free.
This is about what happens next ...
Lily knows that she must bring the man who nearly ruined her
life to justice. But she never imagined that reconnecting
with her family would be just as difficult. Reclaiming her
relationship with her twin sister, her mother, and her high
school sweetheart, who is in love with her sister, may be
Lily's greatest challenge. After all they've been through,
can Lily and her family find their way back after this
life-altering trauma?
Baby Doll is a taut psychological thriller
that focuses on family entanglements and the evil that can
hide behind a benign facade.
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