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Blurb:
Evil is closer than you think.
Psychologist, Mollie Roark, had it all. A hotshot husband, a beautiful daughter, a successful career, and a fancy house on the Napa hillside. She'd finally made it. Left her troubled past and her crazy father far behind her.
But two years ago, the unspeakable happened. Her daughter's burned body turned up on the shores of Lake Berryessa just days after her fifteenth birthday. The police seem certain Dakota fell victim to the Shadow Man, the prolific serial killer who had terrorized the Napa Valley for two decades. Mollie's normal life is now anything but. Childless, divorced, and unemployed, she's barely staying afloat. She's got one mission. To find the scumbag who killed her daughter and make him pay.
When a mysterious old man shows up at her door seeking absolution and promising answers, it's impossible to resist. But the deeper she goes inside his mind, the shakier her sanity becomes. Everyone is a suspect. No one is innocent. Because Mollie knows evil may be as close as her own shadow.
About the Series...
Straight from the mind of a forensic psychologist comes an addictive new series of betrayal, lust, revenge, and murder. These doctors earned their degrees from the dark side. And once you start reading, you won't be able to stop.
Author
Ellery Kane
Author Bio:
Forensic psychologist by day, novelist by night, Ellery Kane has been writing--professionally and creatively--for as long as she can remember. Just like many of her main characters, Ellery loves to ask why, which is the reason she became a psychologist in the first place. Real life really is stranger than fiction, and Ellery's writing is often inspired by her day job. Evaluating violent criminals and treating trauma victims, she has gained a unique perspective on the past and its indelible influence on the individual. And she's heard her fair share of real life thrillers. An avid short story writer as a teenager, Ellery recently began writing for enjoyment again, and she hasn't stopped since.
Ellery lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, a picturesque setting that provides the backdrop for many of her novels. If you don't find Ellery interviewing murderers behind prison walls or pecking away at her latest novel, she is probably at the gym landing a solid jab-cross to a punching bag; riding bicycles with her special someone; or enjoying a movie the old-fashioned way--at the theater with popcorn and Milk Duds.
Ellery's debut novel, Legacy, has received several awards, including winning the Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, young adult, e-book category, and the Gold Medal in The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards, teenage category. In 2016, Ellery was selected as one of ten semifinalists in the MasterClass James Patterson Co-Author Competition.
Shadows Among Us by Ellery Kane
Review by HeidiLynn's BookReviews
First, I want to thank Ellery Kane for providing me this book so I may bring you this review.
Ellery Kane’s Shadows Among Us is her best book to date. It is a must-read book. The storyline is ripped from the headlines. This is one book that must be made into a movie! It would be a blockbuster!
This book tackles a lot of important issues. This being said some of these issues may be triggers for some readers. This book focuses on mental illnesses, PTSD, alcoholism, physical abuse, infidelity, rape, animal cruelty, repercussions of sending naughty selfies, dangers of online chat rooms, accusations of sexual assault, etc.
There are a lot of references to Star Wars in this book. So, if you are a Chewbacca fan you are in luck with this one.
On many occasions I thought Ellery wrote some very lines in the book.
This is Dakota’s story and what happened to her. It is told in present day and in the days leading up to her death. It is a story unlike any story you have ever heard. It is fascinating, gripping, and for many extremely relatable on many levels. Many times, I was very scared for her and wanted to hug her.
I loved when she wrote: we all have space inside us that we keep hidden from the world, a space we protect at all costs.
Ellery Kane’s Shadows Among Us is her best book to date. It is a must-read book. The storyline is ripped from the headlines. This is one book that must be made into a movie! It would be a blockbuster!
This book tackles a lot of important issues. This being said some of these issues may be triggers for some readers. This book focuses on mental illnesses, PTSD, alcoholism, physical abuse, infidelity, rape, animal cruelty, repercussions of sending naughty selfies, dangers of online chat rooms, accusations of sexual assault, etc.
There are a lot of references to Star Wars in this book. So, if you are a Chewbacca fan you are in luck with this one.
On many occasions I thought Ellery wrote some very lines in the book.
This is Dakota’s story and what happened to her. It is told in present day and in the days leading up to her death. It is a story unlike any story you have ever heard. It is fascinating, gripping, and for many extremely relatable on many levels. Many times, I was very scared for her and wanted to hug her.
I loved when she wrote: we all have space inside us that we keep hidden from the world, a space we protect at all costs.
