Here and gone

This was an interesting on the edge of your seat book to read. Right from the beginning the reader knows what is going on. The people that don't know are the other characters in the book. A woman, Audra, is trying to get herself and her children away from the clutches of an abusive husband and father. After traveling for four days, she and her children are pulled over by a cop in a very deserted part of Arizona. He arrests her and sends her children off with another cop. When she gets to the jail and she asks where her children were taken, he looks at her and says, "What children?". The rest of the book is Audra trying to keep her sanity when trying to tell the FBI what happened to her children while they just want to tell them where she dumped their bodies. It is a story that you root hard for Audra because you know she is right, but things just don't seem to be going her way.

This is the story that in many ways people have been dealing with for years. Back years ago, a family could make a request to their doctor that a woman, many times, be put in a mental asylum and she is admitted to rot there for years. Once locked up in such a place, nothing they do or say will get the keepers to change their minds and release them. Many divorce cases in the child custody issues, can be settled in favor of the first one to get to tell their story or file charges. Then there are the depraved people of the world that will do anything to earn a buck and those who will pay any amount so that they can get their jollies. The author does an excellent job of showing just how bad the anguish can be when you know you are innocent and no one believes you or is willing to stick up for you. There may be references to things in the book that may turn off some potential readers, but at the same time these sorts of things happen, so you need to choose whether or not you want to try to read the book. I can't say more without getting a spoiler alert charge on me. I'm just glad that as I mentioned before, from the beginning of the book, we see and know what is going on. The surprises are all on the actions of other characters.