When Bad Things Happen

She turned her back for one second. Now they're trapped. Elizabeth thought she'd planned for everything. Her son's rare seizure disorder meant constant routines, strict safeguards, unbreakable structure. But one brief stop at a gas station shatters her fragile world. In a heartbeat, her car is hijacked-with Timothy still inside. She throws herself into the moving car, but that's only the beginning of the nightmare. As hours stretch into days, they're held captive in a remote, crumbling house-cut off from everyone. No phone. No medication. No help. Elizabeth must keep her son alive while navigating the volatile mind of the man holding them captive, and her own spiraling fear. Because Timothy is running out of time. And she's all he's got. A pulse-pounding psychological thriller exploring maternal instinct, survival, and the harrowing choices we face when everything we love is on the line. The first book in the emotionally gripping and nerve-shredding When Bad Things Happen series.

She thought surviving meant they were safe. She was wrong. After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Elizabeth is determined to protect her son and reclaim their quiet life. No more strangers. No more threats. Just safety. But safety is a fragile illusion. A courtroom mandate forces her to open their home to a psychologist and a social worker-two people who claim to help but begin asking the wrong questions. Her parenting. Her past. Her sanity. When Timothy begins to withdraw and show signs of distress, Elizabeth suspects something is very wrong. But is it the trauma resurfacing-or something far more dangerous? Because someone wants control. Someone wants access. And someone isn't who they claim to be. A taut psychological thriller about trust, trauma, and the terrifying cost of being believed. Trust is book two in the emotionally gripping When Bad Things Happen series.