Bøker av Carol Knuth

Emma Snow has left everything familiar behind. Eight months earlier, she had lived in a lazy small Midwestern town, but her world changed after a dark secret was exposed. She has been thrown into a world where her wits must be sharp if she is to survive. Fearing for her life, she runs away. Under the cover of night, she stumbles five miles through a field to the police department in town to seek safety, and help. Safe but exhausted during the drive to what will be her next home, she feels a glimmer of hope that fate will be more kind to her. A new school, town and family, life seems to be looking up. She lets her guard down, and then the nightmare begins all over again. Escape, this time, means letting go of hope. She is on her on. She is leaving behind a dark dangerous world and is thrown into a terrifying new life. The Garbage Bag Girl is a story of hope, endurance, and srength, of finding one's pace in the world. It is about the resiliency of the human spirit that carries us through-taking over when we would give up. It is a story of love lost, and of love that finds us when most needed arriving in the most unexpected places and forms.

16-year-old Emma Snow is homeless again. Her hopes and dreams are crumpled into a garbage bag along with all her worldly possessions and material memories. She finally accepts that being part of a family-belonging somewhere-is not meant to be for her, and vows never to love or trust anyone ever again. Emma is invited to stay with a family in their country home on a hill nestled amongst corn and bean fields outside of New Point, a small town in the Midwest. It doesn't take long for her to realize that life in New Point is different from any place she has ever experienced. As Emma struggles to be a typical teen in an untypical town and situation, someone from her past reappears, threatening life in her new home as the people in the small town take her under their wing trying to heal her tattered heart. Senior year arrives and Emma scrambles to make the most of the last year of her childhood, joining the high school basketball team, pom-pom squad, and even meets her first true love. But as she lives the fantasy life of every teen, especially a foster teen, the memory of a past dream haunts her. One winter evening during the Christmas holiday, again the past collides with the present and Emma must make a decision that will impact life at her country home and her future. Rhodes' Home is a story about trust, love, hope, and faith...of new beginnings.

A straight-A student, Emma Snow seems like a happy, normal child-and she would be, were it not for the continuous horrors she experiences at home. Emma Snow seems like an ordinary child. Perhaps a little quiet, with a hearing impairment...she's a straight-A student who loves to read. Emma lives with her two sisters, her father, and her stepmother in a house on Third Street. A house the neighbors avoid discussing. Within the walls of the Snow residence, Emma and her sisters are the target of a never-ending stream of military-style beatings and sexual assault. For ten years, Emma and her sisters suffer-with one short, blissful stay in a foster home showing them what life could be like. Emma lives on constant high alert, always waiting for her father's next explosion. All she wants is to live the life other little girls take for granted: To laugh. To be safe. To be a kid. When a crisis center counselor intervenes, it seems Emma and her sisters will finally be free of their tormenter. Surely the judge won't let Emma's abuser go free? But things don't always play out as they should, even when a child predator confesses his crimes.

Katie Sanders, a senior paralegal and acting Human Resources Manager at the Weaver law firm is thrust into the high-powered world of sex, drugs, and coercion when she investigates a series of sexual assaults at the law firm. When she becomes the target of a powerful and dangerous man, and stumbles upon the shocking truth about her marriage, Katie flees to the small town of Marion, North Carolina, taking with her secrets that could destroy the lives of rich and powerful men in Kentucky. Hidden away on the outskirts of the town of Marion, Katie begins the journey of facing the night that changed the course of her future, and why she fled Kentucky. But she finds no matter how far she runs she cannot escape the memories and people who haunt her. Her world is turned upside down once again as she is drawn into an investigation surrounding the suspicious death of a high-powered attorney. One summer afternoon, a man from Katie's past, with secrets of his own, arrives in town. Katie fears his arrival in town is more than coincidence, but as their paths continue to cross, Katie begins to realize that all men, even attorneys, are not shaped by the same beginnings, and at least one man is worthy of her trust . . . and so much more. Finally Katie finds the strength and courage to face the dangers of her past, to take a stand, opening the door to a destiny of purpose, love, and a new beginning.