The Family

<p>I could not put this book down!</p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She should've gone anywhere else...</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Leah</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Leah's daughter Nyla unexpectedly appears at her cabin in the Appalachian Mountains it's a dream come true. For five years Leah hasn't seen or heard from her daughter-ever since Nyla stormed out of the house determined to go live with her idealized father.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now she's back. But there's something different about Nyla. Something...off. And it's deeper than her unsettling appearance. As Leah struggles to reconnect with Nyla she has more questions than answers. Where has she been? What happened to her? And more importantly what is she hiding?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nyla</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ever since her parents' divorce Nyla longed to live with her charismatic father Paul who's the opposite of her frivolous and overbearing mother. So at eighteen after yet another argument with her mom Nyla relocates to her dad's place in rural Tennessee.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She immediately falls in love with the slightly run-down self-sustaining farmhouse that her father shares with a mixed collective of likeminded individuals. Secluded from society and self-contained it's the simple life she's always wanted. Before long she's encompassed in the family where everything is shared and everyone does their part. It's perfect.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until Paul begins to govern with an ever-expanding list of rules . . . and punishments.</strong></p>