Showing results by author "Emily Bleeker" in Literature & Fiction

Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his beloved wife of sixteen years, ready to face the hard job of raising their three children alone. But there's something he's not prepared for - a blue envelope with his name scrawled across the front in Natalie's handwriting, waiting for him on the floor of their suburban Michigan home.

Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she's been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can't tell the real story--so they lie.

Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, 20-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world. Lonely, punished for the slightest offense, her only distraction comes from watching the Feely family's online videos. They're an affectionate vlogging quintet and an internet sensation. Most important, they are Tara's mental refuge. Then the opportunity arises for them to be something more. When Tara accepts an internship with the close-knit clan, they're her escape.

Ellie Brown thought she'd finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med school was supposed to be her ticket out. But when her father has a stroke, she must return home to share his care with her older sister, Amelia, who's busy with her own family. Working as a paramedic, Ellie's days are monotonous, driving an ambulance through streets she'd hoped never to see again.

Ever since her husband’s death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton. She can’t sleep, can’t work, and can’t bear to touch her beautiful baby girl. Her emotional state is whispering lies in Veronica’s ear: You’re a bad mother. But not everything can be reasoned away by Veronica’s despair. Can it? After all, the break-in at her house happened. The disturbing sketches she found in her studio are real. So is the fear for her daughter’s safety — especially when Veronica comes home to a silent nursery and a missing baby.

Die Medizinstudentin Ellie Brown hätte nie gedacht, dass sie in ihre Heimatstadt Broadlands zurückkehren würde, um dort als Rettungssanitäterin zu arbeiten. Doch ein Schlaganfall ihres Vaters zwingt sie überraschend dazu. Während Ellie noch versucht, sich mit dem Leben in der Provinz zu arrangieren, geht ein Notruf ein und sie wird zum Haus ihrer Schwester Amelia gerufen: Zu ihrem Entsetzen wurden sie und ihr Mann Steve bei einem Einbruch angeschossen.

Lillian Linden est une menteuse. À première vue, ce n'est que la courageuse rescapée d'un accident d'avion. Mais, en réalité, elle dissimule la vérité à sa famille, à ses amis et au reste du monde depuis que des hélicoptères l'ont rapatriée, elle et son compagnon d'infortune, Dave Hall, d'une île déserte du Pacifique sud. Les naufragés, portés disparus pendant près de deux ans, se retrouvent dès lors sous les feux de l'actualité.

After a series of devastating losses, Chicago journalist Hannah Williamson has landed in Senatobia, Mississippi, to care for her bedridden grandmother and endure grunt work at a small newspaper. But in cleaning out its archives, Hannah discovers a compelling distraction from her life: a series of rejected articles from the 1930s that illuminate a long-hidden mystery.