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Refuge

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Refuge

By: Gillian White
Narrated by: Jacqueline Davis
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Does true evil exist in the world? Are people really what they seem?

Abandoned by each of her children’s fathers, Shelley Tremayne’s having a tough time raising six kids alone. When she sees a TV newscast about five boys committing a horrible crime and recognizes her eleven-year-old son Joey in the surveillance camera footage, her life becomes infinitely worse. Although Joey swears he only witnessed the incident, the other boys point to him as the instigator, a charge supported by the evidence. But Shelley simply can’t accept that her Joey could be responsible for such a heinous act.

Shelley and her children can’t return to their grubby home, where their neighbors are waiting to express their outrage. Fortunately, good Samaritans John and Eunice Bolton volunteer to shelter the family at their farm, and offer them the help and caring that they’ve given to so many others in desperate straits. But who will believe Shelley when she discovers that the Boltons are not as kind as they appear?

©2002 Gillian White (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Family Life Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting

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Good story which makes you think, shocking and harrowing, a good plot twist which isn't predictable but the ending is poor

A good twist

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Loved this. Narrator was excellent story was excellent and I could listen to more from the author and narrator if they are half as good

Gripping

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The narrator sounds like she is auditioning for kids cartoon Horrid Henry. It’s so distracting and makes it sound like she’s reading a children’s storybook. Screeching!

Not bad but the narrator is awful.

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Slow start, excellent storyline but the child like 'the end' announcement when the book could have been finished in a more appropriate way left me feeling that the author ran out of love for the story line or realised dinner was burning!

Worth a listen to

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Story had me hooked from the very beginning, however it was spoilt by the narrator taking loud breaths. I was tempted to abandon it but glad that I preserved.

Great story

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