Always Watching
A Novel
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4.1 • 25 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
From the bestselling author of Still Missing comes a heart-pounding novel of psychological suspense that will keep readers turning the pages well into the night ...
She helps people put their demons to rest.
Dr. Nadine Lavoie works in the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire: healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her family life—her daughter, Lisa, ran away and is still living on the streets—or her past, which is filled with black holes. Until a suicidal woman is admitted, and the details of her back story reveal troubling parallels with Nadine’s own life.
But she has a few of her own…
Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And what can she do, now, to save Lisa? Soon Nadine realizes that danger is closer to home than she ever imagined. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most…and fight back with everything she’s got.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie learns she can outrun her past for only so long in this powerful novel of psychological suspense from Thriller Award winner Stevens (Still Missing), her third stand-alone. For decades, the stoic Dr. Lavoie has largely managed to repress traumatic memories of the time she spent as a teen in a commune near Victoria, B.C., led by charismatic self-styled guru Aaron Quinn. Then she hears his name for the first time in years from new patient Heather Simeon, a suicidal, terrified young woman who has just left Quinn's River of Life Spiritual Center. No sooner does Lavoie start delving into Quinn's current activities in hopes of helping Heather than unsettling things start to happen to her and she also has increasingly distressing flashbacks of her commune days. Although Stevens relies too heavily on conveniently timed recovered memories to propel her twisty plot, readers will likely become as hooked as Quinn's followers. Announced first printing of 150,000.
