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Those Girls by Chevy Stevens (St. Martin’s Press, July 2015)

In her second stand-alone thriller, author Chevy Stevens tells the story of Dani, Courtney and Jess Campbell as they try to leave their past behind them, a past that will always be with them.  Growing up with on a remote Canadian farm with their abusive, alcoholic father, the Campbell sisters always looked out for each other and waited for the day when they could be free of their father forever.  But that day arrives in a way that forces the girls to flee and create new identities.  On their way to new lives, they must endure even more, but are eventually free to grow up and live their lives quietly.  Jess , now Jamie, has a teenaged daughter of her own, a daughter who wants to know more about her past and the past of her mother and aunts and begins her own search, a search that takes the Campbell sisters back to a time and place none of them wants to remember, a time that someone else hasn’t forgotten, someone who isn’t willing to let it go.  Evil and innocence are juxtaposed in this gut-wrenching story, the desperation and hope of the sisters tangible as they try to make their way to a world where they can not only be safe, but can truly feel free as anger and fear turn to love and forgiveness.