After fifteen years in captivity, Nova Lefleur is free, back home, and reunited with her Louisiana family. Through her ordeal, she never forgot them. They never forgot her either. But things have changed since Nova’s been gone.
Nova and her encouraging seventeen-year-old daughter, Skye, are getting to know each other for the first time. Her husband, Quinton, is rebuilding a relationship with a wife he thought was gone forever. And Nova’s sister, Leah, is overjoyed—and overwhelmed.
Leah shares a secret with Quinton neither can bear to tell the woman they cherish. Not yet. Five years ago, bonding over grief and finding a reason to smile again, Quinton and Leah were married. When it’s time for the truth to come out, they could lose Nova all over again.
As Nova is eased back into a life both familiar and unfamiliar, she and her family must confront their deepest fears, the choices they made, and the choices to come that will reshape each of their lives forever.
‘Something wrong?’ His baritone voice overpowered the small space and pulled me back into the hell he’d created for me (CHAPTER 1: Nova).
(Lake Union Publishing, Kindle Book, 1 June 2025, 378 pages, bought from Amazon Kindle, Amazon First Reads)
This is a new author for me. This book appealed to me the most from this month’s Amazon First Read picks. It took a while to get into and I wasn’t really enjoying it at first. I’m not sure why. It didn’t gel for me until more than halfway through. But then the click happened, the click inside when you start to enjoy a good book. The issue I had is that so little is known about Nova’s time in captivity which I think should have been explored more. But when the click happened I settled in and started to enjoy this. I’d recommend this.
4/5
