Showing results by author "Bryan Reardon"

While his successful wife goes off to her law office each day, Simon Connolly takes care of their kids, Jake and Laney. Now that they are in high school, the angst-ridden father should feel more relaxed, but he doesn't. He's seen the statistics, read the headlines. And now, his darkest fear is coming true. There has been a shooting at school.

Julia Swann, mother of two young boys, is on the phone with her husband, Michael, when the call abruptly cuts out. It isn't until later in the evening when she discovers that something terrible has happened at Penn Station, where Michael was waiting for a train home. Julia races to New York City to look for Michael, her panicked searching interwoven with memories of meeting and falling in love with the husband she's now desperate to find.

In der Penn Station in New York explodiert eine Bombe. Daher ist Julia Swann erleichtert, als ihr Mann Michael, der zu der Zeit im Bahnhof war, eine SMS schickt. Aber dann statten Beamte der Terrorabwehr Julia einen Besuch ab und zeigen ihr ein Überwachungsvideo, in dem Michael vom Tatort flüchtet. Offenbar hat er die Bombe gezündet. Julia glaubt jedoch nicht, dass ihr Mann ein Terrorist ist. Sie ist entschlossen, Michael vor der Polizei zu finden und ihm zu helfen. Ein gnadenloser Wettlauf mit der Zeit beginnt.

Little girls are hardwired to hold their daddies in high esteem, so it comes as a shock the first time a daughter feels the back of her daddy's hand across her face... or watches him punch and kick her mother to within an inch of her life. How could this be? Her older sisters teach her how to survive, even when he comes for her in the night. A girl learns to become invisible, to look the other way, to say nothing when a curious stranger asks if she's okay. To lie. To expect nothing, not even from relatives. To cry without tears. To pray silently.