Someone is hurting her son. The question is: Who?
After a humiliating blind date, forty-five-year-old divorcee, Kathi Markham, questions whether she’ll ever be wanted again. Then contractor Ryan Patterson walks into her advertising agency and asks her out.
Ryan is patient, thoughtful, and kind. The polar opposite of her ex. But while Kathi is rebuilding her life, her sixteen-year-old son is quietly falling apart.
First comes a bruise shaped like fingerprints. Then a soaked backpack. A split lip. Charlie insists every injury is an accident and begs Kathi not to ask questions.
Then one night after dinner, he collapses.
With Charlie on life support and the police circling, Kathi must face an unbearable possibility: Was someone trying to kill her son, or did she overlook the signs that Charlie wanted to die?
A creepy neighbor watches from across the street. Kathi’s controlling ex-husband wants custody. And her new boyfriend has a questionable habit and a key to her house.
Someone knows the truth and Kathi needs to find out who.
Because if Charlie didn’t try to take his own life, then the next attack may happen before he has a chance to wake up.
THE EMPTY BARSTOOL is Book 6 of The "Empty" Thriller Series. It can be read as a standalone.
Natasha Stone books are SLOW-BURN psychological thrillers that may include: mild violence, themes of abuse, death, stalking, kidnapping, PTSD, and light sexual references. They do NOT contain explicit sexual content, foul language, rape, or gore.
Genre: Mystery
After a humiliating blind date, forty-five-year-old divorcee, Kathi Markham, questions whether she’ll ever be wanted again. Then contractor Ryan Patterson walks into her advertising agency and asks her out.
Ryan is patient, thoughtful, and kind. The polar opposite of her ex. But while Kathi is rebuilding her life, her sixteen-year-old son is quietly falling apart.
First comes a bruise shaped like fingerprints. Then a soaked backpack. A split lip. Charlie insists every injury is an accident and begs Kathi not to ask questions.
Then one night after dinner, he collapses.
With Charlie on life support and the police circling, Kathi must face an unbearable possibility: Was someone trying to kill her son, or did she overlook the signs that Charlie wanted to die?
A creepy neighbor watches from across the street. Kathi’s controlling ex-husband wants custody. And her new boyfriend has a questionable habit and a key to her house.
Someone knows the truth and Kathi needs to find out who.
Because if Charlie didn’t try to take his own life, then the next attack may happen before he has a chance to wake up.
THE EMPTY BARSTOOL is Book 6 of The "Empty" Thriller Series. It can be read as a standalone.
Natasha Stone books are SLOW-BURN psychological thrillers that may include: mild violence, themes of abuse, death, stalking, kidnapping, PTSD, and light sexual references. They do NOT contain explicit sexual content, foul language, rape, or gore.
Genre: Mystery
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