Happenstance

<p>Darby Saunders has a plan. Two years in the making every detail rehearsed every goodbye disguised. At sixteen she's learned to survive the unthinkable behind closed doors but survival isn't living-and she's ready to end the reign of the monster who made her home a place of terror.</p><p></p><p>Over a single harrowing weekend as a storm lashes her small New Brunswick town Darby's carefully plotted escape collides with the unpredictable-an unexpected kindness a loyal dog a best friend who doesn't know the truth and the fragile flicker of what might have been love.</p><p></p><p>Told with unflinching honesty and heartbreaking restraint <em>Happenstance</em> traces the final hours of a young woman's attempt to reclaim her power from the man who stole it. It's a story of courage and silence friendship and betrayal and the desperate hope that even in darkness there might still be one way out.</p>