Always Watching A Novel

by Stevens, Chevy

• ISBN13: 9780312595692
• ISBN10: 0312595697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-18
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

In New York Timesbestselling author Chevy Stevens's Always Watching, psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest. But she has demons of her ownsome she can barely think about and some she can't even remember. Nadine's mother was a wildly unpredictable manic depressive. There are whole chunks of Nadine's life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia. And her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a new patient, Heather Simeon, is brought to the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine is assigned to work with her. As Nadine gently coaxes the story out of Heather, she learns of some troubling parallels to their lives. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her own history, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a commune by a river on remote Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group's leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today? As the dual stories unfold, Nadine finds herself drawn to uncover her own secrets and learn why you can sometimes leave the past, but you can never escape.

Author Biography

CHEVY STEVENS grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still lives on the island with her husband and daughter. When she’s not working on her next book, she’s camping and canoeing with her family in the local mountains.  Her debut novel, STILL MISSING, won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel.

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"Chevy Stevens is in top form. Always Watching is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping."--Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Heartbroken

“Haunting and harrowing, Always Watching is a stunner, offering not only consuming suspense but also a moving tale of mothers and daughters, the lingering echoes of the past that never stop reverberating.”--Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me 

“A fantastic, heart-pounding thriller that pulls you in from the first page.  I loved it!”--Lisa Jackson, author of You Don’t Want To Know

"Always Watching grabbed me from page one. Its story of power, murder, and family secrets is seductive and sinister. Dr. Nadine Lavoie is a tenacious, compassionate heroine."--Meg Gardiner, author of Ransom River

“Taut and riveting, Always Watching follows the fault line between a person’s past and present — and the terror and turmoil that can pull a life apart when they collide with the force of an earthquake. Chevy Stevens’ suspenseful, twisted story kept me up late into the night, frantically turning pages with white-knuckled fingers.”--Hilary Davidson, author of The Next One To Fall

"In Always Watching, Chevy Stevens begins with a shivery premise --- a family ensnared by a religious cult led by a madman. Stevens lights that fuse and lets it burn all the way to an explosive ending. A chilling, compelling read."--William Landay, author of Defending Jacob

“Chevy Stevens intelligently and relentlessly pulls the reader deeper into a nightmarish world while compelling you to read just more page…”--Rosamund Lupton, author of Sister

“A harrowing tale of manipulation that got under my skin by the end of the first chapter…”--Linwood Barclay, author of Trust Your Eyes