Helena Pelletier is the illegitimate daughter of a young kidnapped girl and her sadistic captor, who for 12 years lived without seeing or interacting with anyone except her parents. Her only perception of the outside world was from looking at early copies of National Geographic magazines that were left behind in the old abandoned cabin her father claimed for his own in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There was no electricity and no running water as they provided for themselves living off the land and nature. nature.

Now 20 years after Helena helped send her father to prison for life, he's ingeniously escaped into the marshlands of the Upper Peninsula that he knows so well. As an intense manhunt is set in motion, it is soon apparent he's still an excellent woodsman even after many years in prison. Not only is he able to escape a maximum security prison, he's fooled trackers into looking for him in an area where he is not. Helena knows she's the only one who can find him, yet he's still skillful at maneuvering her to come looking for him on his own terms. With two young daughters to protect from this evil sadist, Helena has to be stronger and smarter to bring down his reign of terror and killings. The question is, who will be victorious when the final confrontation is ended?

Karen Dionne's THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER is edge-of-your-seat suspense with every page that's turned. The complex, compelling plot is nothing short of brilliant. The brutal action scenes add another edgy dimension to Karen Dionne's intense narrative and vivid characterizations. During Helena's hunt for her father, she relates how things were when she was growing up as she speculates if the stories he told her about himself were really true. With the chapters alternating between her childhood and her current situation, I was spellbound wondering what would happen next. I could not turn the pages fast enough to find out the resolution as I held my breath with each new obstacle the gutsy Helena had to overcome. This is a fantastic psychological thriller, and I highly recommend it.