Fractals

From award-winning author Alicia Anthony comes a gripping novel of redemption and revenge fueled by the traumas that shape us.Seventeen-year-old Carly Dalton shouldve known Asher Thompson had secrets. Why else would he be in a truck stop bar in the middle of a school night? And she definitely shouldnt have accepted his offer. But here she was new school new friends same old problems. Now she was sitting in the police station keeping secrets of her own with nowhere to go and only one person left to care.High school science teacher Asher Thompson only wanted to help. He first told himself that the night he pulled Carly a rain-soaked teenager from the floor of the local truck stop bar. Now with the girls father dead and sister missing he was doing it again opening his home to her as a temporary guardian. But as Carlys brutal present begins to crack open a door to Ashers own painful past hes forced to choose ... protect his student or save himself.And Asher already knows ... no good deed goes unpunished.***Fractals is an emotionally intense psychological thriller that explores the impact of trauma on our perception of right versus wrong. Readers of Lisa Unger Ruth Ware and Alice Feeney will delight in the edge of your seat twists in this complex thriller.Content Warning: This book contains elements of human trafficking which may be difficult for sensitive readers.