Linda Smith
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Truth can be illusive, choices disconcerting, the promise of moral certitude, irresistible.
In the Midwestern offices of Secure Star Insurance, Rebecca, efficient and distant, seeks only to survive another day. Sally, earnest and devout, views the workplace as a fertile mission field. Into the agency comes a new employee, Gladys, gregarious, unorthodox and twice divorced. When an intuitive HR manager arrives, veneers begin to crack.
To move beyond...
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Often through the shadows, we more clearly see the light.
Andrew Covick, young and naïve is, offered a scholarship and leaves home for the first time. On campus, friendly senior students invite him to barbeques and other get-togethers. "This is great!" he thinks. "New friends, free food!" Andrew assumes there are no strings attached...until he begins to feel the tendrils.
As Andrew seeks to disentangle himself from what he once thought to be a benign...
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During their junior year, three teens register at Riverbank High-three among two thousand. The new students show up for classes, take notes and hand in assignments. Unnoticed, they walk among the crowds of young people that hustle through the corridors and pack into classrooms. But beneath their outward appearance, each bears a hidden trauma that goes unknown and unseen. In time, their paths cross and friendships form. Then one goes missing.