Hollie Overton

A stand-out debut thriller by a new voice in US crime. Think ROOM meets SISTER.This is about what happens next.You''ve been held captive in one room, mentally and physically abused every day, since you were sixteen years old.Then, one night, you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked.For the first time in eight years, you''re free.This is about what happens next ...Lily knows that she must bring the man who nearly ruined her life - her good-looking high-school teacher - to justice. But she never imagined that reconnecting with her family would be just as difficult. Reclaiming her relationship with her twin sister, her mother, and her high school sweetheart who is in love with her sister may be Lily''s greatest challenge. After all they''ve been through, can Lily and her family find their way back after this life-altering trauma?Impossible not to read in one sitting, Baby Doll is a taut psychological thriller that focuses on family entanglements and the evil that can hide behind a benign facade.

"What a compulsive read! A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page." (Tess Gerritsen). She kept moving forward. She didn't stop. She didn't look back. Lily has been abducted from outside her high-school gates. For eight long years she's been locked away from the outside world. During that time she's changed from a girl into a woman. She's had a baby. And now she has seized her chance and escaped. Running for her life, with her daughter in her arms, she returns to her family and the life she used to know - to her much-loved twin sister Abby, her mum, her high-school boyfriend - and her freedom. But is it possible to go back? Impossible not to read in one sitting, Baby Doll is a taut psychological thriller that focuses on family entanglements and the evil that can hide behind a benign facade.

Durante ocho años Lily estuvo secuestrada en un sótano.Escapar fue solo el comienzo.Raptada a las puertas de su instituto, Lily ha estado aislada del mundo durante ocho años. Ha dejado de ser adolescente para convertirse en una mujer en la pequeña prision del sotano en el que vive. Su hija Sky no ha conocido otra vida.Pero, un dia, su captor olvida echar la llave a la cerradura.Esta es la historia de lo que sucede luego...... a Lily, a su hermana gemela, a su madre, a su hija y a su secuestrador.Reseñas:Esta fascinante primera novela empieza donde la mayoria de los thrillers acaban... Overton no deja de presentar giros, vueltas y sorpresas que hacen que el lector no pueda dejar de preguntarse que demonios va a pasar a continuacion.Publishers WeeklyLa historia de la recien liberada Lily y de su hija se mueve a ritmo vertiginoso desde el momento en que denuncia a su raptor, provocando un verdadero terremoto en la vida de su desconcertada familia. Muy bueno.StylistUn thriller psicologico absorbente.Daily Express

Durante ocho años Lily estuvo secuestrada en un sótano.Escapar fue solo el comienzo.Raptada a las puertas de su instituto, Lily ha estado aislada del mundo durante ocho años. Ha dejado de ser adolescente para convertirse en una mujer en la pequeña prision del sotano en el que vive. Su hija Sky no ha conocido otra vida.Pero, un dia, su captor olvida echar la llave a la cerradura.Esta es la historia de lo que sucede luego...... a Lily, a su hermana gemela, a su madre, a su hija y a su secuestrador.Reseñas: Esta fascinante primera novela empieza donde la mayoria de los thrillers acaban... Overton no deja de presentar giros, vueltas y sorpresas que hacen que el lector no pueda dejar de preguntarse que demonios va a pasar a continuacion.Publishers WeeklyLa historia de la recien liberada Lily y de su hija se mueve a ritmo vertiginoso desde el momento en que denuncia a su raptor, provocando un verdadero terremoto en la vida de su desconcertada familia. Muy bueno.StylistUn thriller psicologico absorbente.Daily Express