Before He Finds Her: A Novel [Paperback]

From critically acclaimed author Michael Kardos,Before He Finds Heris a stirring, suspenseful novel about love and faith and fear, as a young woman searches for the father who committed a terrible crime over a decade ago.

Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore Town of Silver Bay knows the story: On a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then brutally murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection Program. She has never been allowed to travel, go to a school dance, or even have access to the Internet at home. Precautions must be taken at every turn, because Ramsey Miller was never caught and might still be on the hunt for his daughter. Despite strict house rules, Melanie has started a secretive relationship and is ten weeks pregnant. She doesn't want her child to grow up in hiding as she has had to. Defying her guardians and taking matters into her own hands, Melanie returns to Silver Bay in hopes of doing what the authorities have failed to do: find her father before he finds her.

“There’s always a creep factor in psychological suspense novels, and it makes itself felt right at the outset of Michael Kardos’sBefore He Finds Her, a well-crafted woman-in-peril narrative with an uncommon premise and an ending you don’t see coming.”—New York Times Book Review

“Suspenseful, fast-paced and why they invented the term ‘nail-biter.’”—Huffington Post, “10 Must-read Books for Spring”

“Before He Finds Heris that rare thing, a novel as human as it is suspenseful, as patient as it is thrilling, as genuine as it is surprising. With strong, compelling prose, Michael Kardos paints a tale of fear and redemption, of anguish and lƒ$