Finding Emma: A Novel - Softcover

Holmes, Steena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477800115 ISBN 13: 9781477800119

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

A mother’s near-obsessive devotion to her missing daughter threatens to destroy more than one family.

Megan is the harried but happy stay-at-home mother of three little girls living in a small town. Her life implodes when her youngest daughter, Emma, disappears on her third birthday.

Two years later, Megan is preparing to commemorate Emma’s birthday and the anniversary of her kidnapping, compelled to keep her name alive in the minds of her community and her family. Her commitment to Emma, however, borderlines on obsession as she follows the families of little girls who look like the daughter she lost.

Her obsession with finding Emma has distanced Megan from both friends and family. Her two older daughters are resentful of her relentless and fruitless search for their sister, and her husband pleads with her to accept that Emma is gone so that the family can move on with their lives.

Meanwhile, in the same small town, Jack is beginning to question his wife’s secrecy about their adored granddaughter, Emmie. As Dottie slips into dementia and becomes increasingly protective over Emmie, he can’t help but wonder if there could be a dark secret that Dottie is keeping from him.

Jack and Megan’s worlds finally intersect at the town carnival, when Megan snaps a photograph of a little girl on her grandfather’s shoulders.

About this title

About the Author:

Steena Holmes grew up in a small town in Canada and holds a Bachelors degree in Theology. She is the author of one previous novel, Chocolate Reality. In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing. She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughters and loves to wake up to the Rocky Mountains each morning.

Review:

"This is a very moving story that most certainly is worth your time and money!" – A 2012 B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1477800115
• ISBN 13: 9781477800119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280