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Before You Found Me

A Novel

Brooke Beyfuss

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Sourcebooks Landmark
29 August 2023
Is it ever okay to kidnap a child?

""Can there ever be sympathy for a kidnapper? A complex, compelling new novel that dissects the tangled psychology of right and righteousness."" - Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean

A tender, deeply emotional novel exploring trauma, healing, love, and the impossible lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love that will linger in readers' hearts long after they turn the last page.

Rowan McNamara doesn't open the door to her new life-she's thrown through it. Following an explosive argument with her abusive fiance, Rowan runs. With no family except for her estranged sister, Celia, Rowan takes refuge in an idyllic New England town.

There, she meets Gabriel, the eleven-year-old son of her neighbor, Lee. Lee is welcoming, friendly, and a little too helpful. But Gabriel is a mystery- withdrawn, often bruised, and only willing to speak to Rowan through his basement window. When she discovers that Lee has kept Gabriel imprisoned for the past three years, Rowan is desperate to save him. Fueled by outrage and empathy, she abducts Gabriel and flees to her childhood home in rural Oklahoma, determined to raise him as her own.

Together they battle nightmares, curious stares, and Celia's constant disapproval. But when Lee begins haunting more than their dreams, Rowan and Gabriel realize they stopped pretending to be a family a long time ago. Their bond is just as strong as blood, and they're willing to do anything to protect one another.
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Imprint:   Sourcebooks Landmark
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   420g
ISBN:   9781728248721
ISBN 10:   1728248728
Pages:   464
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

BROOKE BEYFUSS works full-time as a copywriter for an adult web company, a position that has provided a great deal of future novel material. A graduate of Rutgers University, Brooke is the founder of the Woodbridge Cultural Arts' Commission Writing Group and lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. She is the author of After We Were Stolen

Reviews for Before You Found Me: A Novel

Before You Found Me is a heartrending story of empathy and courage. Brooke Beyfuss does a brilliant job taking the reader on a harrowing journey of two strangers, both traumatized by abuse, who risk everything to help the other. Beautifully crafted, it was impossible not to be carried along as Rowan and Gabriel raced to stay ahead of the danger that was chasing them, opening their hearts, healing, and becoming a remarkable family along the way. An emotional page-turner I couldn't put down. -- Suzanne Redfearn, #1 Amazon bestselling author of In an Instant Can there ever be sympathy for a kidnapper--no matter how forceful her case? Don't decide until you read Before You Found Me, Brooke Beyfuss's complex, compelling new novel that dissects the tangled psychology of right and righteousness in a story of true love between two people estranged only by an accident of genetics. -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean I cried both happy and heartbroken tears through this story of love found in the strangest place and family bonds created out of tragedy. Before You Found Me by Brooke Beyfuss is utterly unique and moving, terrifying, funny, relatable, and life-affirming. An epic roller coaster, filled with unexpected twists and jaw-dropping cliff hangers, it will leave readers on an emotional high. -- Annie Ward, author of Beautiful Bad and The Lying Club


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