Bøker av Holly Brown

The passage of SB590190 amended the Constitution, and the United States descended into the bowels of chaos through the pursuit of perfect equality. The President became a Dictator and "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." Or at least that's what Abigail Johnson's mother told her. Welcome to New America: States have been merged into seven separate Regions, All Media is a branch of the Government, personal property is seized, the Constitution dismantled, and all Citizens tagged and monitored. Anyone believed to be conspiring against The State will be put to death as a traitor. Abigail Johnson remembers when these Executive Orders were issued and her life upturned. Working as a Junior Editor at a State Magazine in Denver, she is haunted by the recent death of her mother and memories of attending rebel meetings in her youth. While trying to stay a step ahead of her past, everything will explode. Two former acquaintances reemerge; involving her in what will become the Nation's most critical battle for rights and freedoms to date. Framed as a Terrorist for the bombing of a building, Abigail is faced with two important decisions: to run or to join the fight against Absolute Despotism.

“Darkly funny and perfectly twisted. . . . Holly Brown proves herself a master storyteller and an expert of suspense.” —Mary Kubica, internationally bestselling author of The Good Girl and Pretty BabyHOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO GET WHAT YOU WANTED?Thirty-nine-year-old Adrienne is desperate to be a mother. And this time, nothing is going to get in her way. Sure, her husband, Gabe, is ambivalent about fatherhood. But she knows that once he holds their baby, he’ll come around. He’s just feeling a little threatened. Because once upon a time, it was Gabe that Adrienne wanted more than anything; she was willing to do anything. . . . But that was half a lifetime ago. She’s a different person now, and there are lines she wouldn’t cross, not without extreme provocation. At nineteen, Leah bears a remarkable resemblance to the young woman Adrienne once was. Which is why Adrienne knows the baby Leah is carrying is meant to be hers. But Leah’s got ideas of her own: Her baby’s going to get a life in California, so why shouldn’t she?It seems like a small price for Adrienne to pay to get their baby. What could possibly go wrong?“Irresistibly readable.”—Sophie Hannah, author of Woman with a Secret “[A] well-constructed psychological drama.”—Associated PressHolly Brown lives with her husband and daughter in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she’s a practicing marriage and family therapist. She is the author of the novel Don’t Try to Find Me, and her blog, “Bonding Time,” is featured on the mental health website PsychCentral.com.

When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her--launching a public campaign that will expose their darkest secrets and change their family forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl.Don't try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board is written in Marley's hand, her mother Rachel knows there has to be some other explanation. Marley would never run away.As the days pass and it sinks in that the impossible has occurred, Rachel and her husband Paul are informed that the police have "limited resources." If they want their fourteen-year-old daughter back, they will have to find her themselves. Desperation becomes determination when Paul turns to Facebook and Twitter, and launches FindMarley.com.But Marley isn't the only one with secrets.With public exposure comes scrutiny, and when Rachel blows a television interview, the dirty speculation begins. Now, the blogosphere is convinced Rachel is hiding something. It's not what they think; Rachel would never hurt Marley. Not intentionally, anyway. But when it's discovered that she's lied, even to the police, the devoted mother becomes a suspect in Marley's disappearance.Is Marley out there somewhere, watching it all happen, or is the truth something far worse?

YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHAT A DIARY FROM 1991 HAS TO DO WITH YOU. YOU'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT. THOSE WHO DON'T LEARN FROM THE PAST ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT . . .Twenty-four-year-old Cheyenne Florian has just received her dream job offer. On the strength of a few vlogs, she's been recruited to be a new correspondent for the recently hatched Independent News Network (INN). With the slogan ?Because independent thinking is the only way out,? INN has branded itself as innovative. Yet once Cheyenne joins the team, she finds age-old dynamics at play.Some of the female staff resent her meteoric rise, while a number of the men are only too happy to welcome her. Then there's the diary, written in 1991 by a female broadcaster named Elyse Rohrbach, anonymously left for Cheyenne. The mysterious diary is accompanied by a note urging her to learn from the past. She wants to believe it's intended as inspiration and friendly advice (or at most, a warning), but when disturbing?and increasingly dangerous?parallels begin to emerge, Cheyenne starts to wonder if something more sinister is at work.It's almost as if someone is engineering the similarities between Cheyenne's life and Elyse's past, like she's a pawn in a very twisted game. But Cheyenne is determined to rewrite the rules and play her own game. Though they're separated by more than twenty-five years, Elyse and Cheyenne are now forced to learn the same lesson: Nothing is more threatening than a woman who doesn't yet know her own power.