The Lost Ones & It All Falls Down
Book Feature - The Lost Ones & It All Falls Down by Sheena Kamal
Book Feature - It All Falls Down & The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal
HBL Note: Reading the description of The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal, I thought it sounded like a unique take on a mystery. What if the birth mother of a child she put up for adopting had to help find her when she goes missing? We don't know why the child was put up for adoption but we know that the mother hadn't wanted the child and wishes the child "had never been born." A difficult situation to face, to be sure, and I'm already curious about how the child came to be and the birth mother's story. On top of that, there are issues of the foster care system and growing up biracial. This certainly has the makings to be a good book!
Read more about The Lost Ones and Sheena's latest novel, It All Falls Down:
Book Feature - It All Falls Down & The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal
The Lost Ones
From the publisher:
It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years—since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren’t looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.
A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself, she sets out to find Bonnie with her only companion, her mutt Whisper, knowing she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed—and plunging into the darkness with little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies.
The search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and violence, from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver, to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior, to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born.
Book Feature - It All Falls Down & The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal
It All Falls Down
From the publisher:
Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent—her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can’t ignore—and dark emotions she can’t control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it.
Finding the truth about her father’s life and his violent death takes her from Vancouver to Detroit where Sam Watts grew up, far away from his people and the place of his birth. Thanks to a disastrous government policy starting in the 1950s, thousands of Canadian native children like Sam were adopted by American families. In the Motor City, Nora discovers that the circumstances surrounding Sam’s suicide are more unsettling than she’d imagined.
Yet no matter how far away Nora gets from Vancouver, she can’t shake trouble. Back in the Pacific Northwest, former police detective turned private investigator Jon Brazuca is looking into the overdose death of a billionaire’s mistress. His search uncovers a ruthless opiate ring and a startling connection to Nora, the infuriatingly distant woman he’d once tried to befriend. He has no way to warn or protect her, because she’s become a ghost, vanishing completely off the grid.
Focused on the mysterious events of her father’s past and the clues they provide to her own fractured identity and that of her estranged daughter, Nora may not be able to see the danger heading her way until it’s too late. But it’s not her father’s old ties that could get her killed—it’s her own.
