Never Let You Go

Lindsey is 19 years old when she falls for charming Andrew Nash. Over the years of their marriage, Andrew becomes controlling, isolating Lindsey from those who love her, convincing her that she is the cause of his problems, making her doubt her own strength and threatening her with violence.

Eleven years later, Lindsey and her daughter, Sophie, are living a quiet and independent life in the small town. Andrew has been in jail, caught driving drunk after he hit--and killed--another woman and publicly threatened to kill Lindsey. She now feels relatively safe and has built a housecleaning business to support her small family.

But now Andrew's been released, and while cleaning a client's house, Lindsey finds a window left open and becomes distinctly aware of another presence in the residence with her. Her mind immediately goes to Andrew: "He's going to make me pay for every year he spent behind bars."

The shock of fear that this first encounter sends through Lindsey radiates off the page and lingers throughout the rest of Never Let You Go, the sixth novel from Chevy Stevens (That Night). Lindsey runs into Andrew in the bank parking lot; she finds her e-mails marked as read before she's seen them. The action is subtle and marks a new direction for Chevy Stevens, whose early works featured a dark and twisted kind of violence. But that's not to suggest that the more reserved terror of Never Let You Go is at all a disappointment; instead, the hooks that sink in from page one and dig ever deeper, through to a thrilling and unanticipated end, are all the more frightening for their invisibility. --Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm

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