Bøger af J. D. Shaw

On the last day of school fourteen-year-old Brit Dawson finds herself alone and homeless. Her addict mother has disappeared-again. Their apartment is padlocked; they've been evicted. Terrified of ending up in foster care, Brit runs through a storm to her favorite sanctuary, the local library and the one person she trusts, Miss Millie Thornton, the librarian. Desperate and unsure what to do next, with no money and nowhere to live and not even the free school breakfasts she's been getting since her mother disappeared, Brit offers to work for Miss Millie for room and board, but Miss Millie invites Brit to come and stay with her. A strange house and an even stranger situation await her. Miss Millie lives in a once-elegant old mansion, now in disrepair. The ancient housekeeper doesn't hide her dislike of Brit. And Brit never sees Miss Millie's mysterious brother, who lives in the east wing. One day Brit answers the phone to a caller who assumes he's talking to Miss Millie-he tells her not to speak, just listen. And as Brit listens, she realizes that the caller is a blackmailer and that in Miss Millie's past, she had been accused of murder. Sure Miss Millie is innocent, Brit plots to stop the blackmail and find the real killer. But when her mother reappears and a strange man wants her to steal something from Miss Millie's house, Brit's attempts to protect the woman who has been so kind to her put her and Miss Millie in a kind of danger even the homeless Brit never imagined.

It's the middle of the night when Beth Watson sneaks out of the house, steals a car, and drives, desperate to run from what she's seen, what happened to Jack. She drives across several states until she ends up in a sleepy little Michigan resort town as the summer season draws to a close. All Beth wants to do is escape, to stay unnoticed, to fly under the radar. But tiny Beaumont is a town with big secrets, some very like the ones she's fled from, and she arrives in town at the same time a murderer strikes. Beth, who has never gone to school, never held a job, and isn't even sure if 16 is her real age, enlists the help of a protector, Dee, the town's cafe owner, who sees a little of herself in Beth. Beth has to jump into a world she's never known--a world of other teens, of cell phones and computers, cliques and bullying, girlfriends and boyfriends. And killing. So much killing. When the murderer strikes again, and again, Beth is certain her plans to start a new life are over and the worst is yet to come. "J.D. Shaw takes on child abuse, bullying, the deep need teens have to be loved and accepted, and the risks they'll take to gain that love. Despite the horrors she's faced, Beth is a character all teens can identify with. Leave No Footprints is a deftly drawn portrait of a young woman whose past is a mystery even to herself, but who, like most kids, just wants to be normal--if only she can escape her past." --Joanne Dahme, author of Tombstone Tea and Contagion