Hear Me Baby Hold Together

<p><strong>Some roads lead away from home. This one leads straight into the fire-and there's no turning back.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Nineteen-year-old June Addison should have graduated by now. Instead she's repeating high school in a small California town where secrets fester behind closed doors. Her best friend dreams of college. June just wants to survive the week.</p><p> </p><p>At home things can't get any worse. Her mother's boyfriend watches her like he's waiting for the right moment. Her mother refuses to see it. And June-worn down out of options-is quietly unraveling. The pressure is building and she's running out of places to hide. June must decide how far she's willing to go to protect herself.</p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile across the desert in Santa Fe a new hire at a government research facility begins to suspect that nothing beneath the surface is what it seems. What starts as a quiet job quickly spirals into something far more dangerous-something that will eventually collide with June's world in ways no one can see coming.</p><p> </p><p>Set against the sunbaked highways of late-1980s California <em>Hear Me Baby Hold Together</em> is the first book in a five-part series of tightly woven novella-length thrillers-stories about trauma survival and the brutal beauty of trying to reclaim your life when everything is working against you.</p><p> </p><p><strong>This installment ends on a cliffhanger and continues in Book Two.</strong></p>