Missing Max: A Novel
By (Author) Karen Young
Simon & Schuster
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
1st August 2010
United States
General
Fiction
Fiction: general and literary
Thriller / suspense fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
FIC
Paperback
336
Width 140mm, Height 214mm, Spine 23mm
311g
When baby Max is kidnapped during Mardi Gras, Jane and Kyle Madisons life falls apart. What their daughter, Melanie, does next is unthinkable.
Max vanished into thin air while in the care of his teenage sister, Melanie. Six months later, the family is a shadow of its former self: Melanie blames herself and is acting out and rebellious; Jane is obsessed with finding Max; and Kyle, a lawyer, struggles to cope with his own griefand a persistent suspicion that one of his cases is connected to Maxs disappearance.
With her family in turmoil and her marriage on the rocks, Jane thinks things cant get any worse. Then when an affair and an unexpected pregnancy threaten to tear the Madisons lives apart, an anonymous caller leads to a break in the case. Can a second kidnapping bring their family back together
Karen Young is a spellbinding storyteller who explores complex emotions with great skill. * Romantic Times *
Youngs romance is suspenseful and entrancing. * Booklist *
"Readers of modern-day fiction will enjoy this tale of heart-rending emotion, forgiveness, suspense and high drama." * Christian Retailing *
Karen Young is the international bestselling author of thirty-eight novels.
She has more than ten million books in print and is the recipient of the coveted RITA award from Romance Writers of America and the Career Achievement and Reviewers Choice awards from Romantic Times magazine.She is known as a spellbinding storyteller who writes with sensitivity about issues facing contemporary women.Karen's career in writing fiction for women has run the gamut from traditional romance to mystery thrillers to inspirational fiction. In her relationship-driven plots, she creates characters that could easily be her readers, and then places them in extraordinary circumstances while adding suspense to the mix.