Troubled

A girl with secrets. A bad boy in trouble. A community out to get them.Driven out of her friendship group, Sophia finds comfort in all the wrong places. The secret she keeps will tear her world apart and it's easier to become involved in someone else's troubles than face her own. Stepping out of her seemingly perfect life and model home, she finds a whole other world on her doorstep.Is it possible to sit in class with someone for four years without seeing their hunger, the holes in their shoes or the bruises on their body? What would you do?Awarded a 5* review from Readers' Favorite.Readers are saying, "Talented K T Bowes once again demonstrates her versatility as a writer with Free from the Tracks. She captures their trials as she develops their characters."If you like teen books with a dose of reality, you'll love Free From the Tracks.Download at your own risk and stay awake tonight reading. The first time K T Bowes won a writing competition she was six and the sound of the applause as she went up on stage stayed with her for at least half an hour. Then when they presented her with a Jaffa biscuit as a prize the shine wore off and she palmed it off on her baby sister after school. She wrote in her teenage years because the local paper paid money to kids for stories and she subsidised her role as sales assistant in a chip shop with her writing. Married with four children, her work history includes a variety of roles from law enforcement officer to chief pot and bottle washer in a hospital. She gained a drawer full of diplomas and certificates over the years for her numerous jobs but the most unused one was an honours degree in English.Eleven years ago after getting on a plane with a rucksack, a suitcase and a one way ticket to New Zealand with her family, K T Bowes dusted off her degree certificate and began to write again.Seven years later and she'd produced three novels which were published first on the book site which must not be named here. A few years on and she's an international best seller with nineteen books published under the Hakarimata Press label and available in most online retailers.K T Bowes is still in New Zealand and still married, but the four children she crossed the world with have all grown up and started doing incredible things of their own. Now in their twenties, they all seem to be stuck in the tertiary system as eternal students but one day they might find their way out - although they aren't currently looking for the exit. She visits them there regularly and sends food parcels and money.She used to horse ride but kept falling off and breaking bones so now stays almost safely on the treadmill - almost safely because she has fallen off that too. Her constant writing companion is a ginger cat called Nahla who sleeps in her desk drawer and follows her everywhere, begging for her picture to go on Twitter.

"She sat and picked the prickles out of her feet, hoping that nobody came looking for her. At least they all knew how she felt now. With any luck, by the time she had composed herself enough to get home again, there would only be good old Edgar left to pick up the pieces and glue her back together. Sophia pulled the last prickle out and hobbled over to the play park. The place was deserted and she was grateful for small mercies. The lady-vicar's words came back to her, 'This too shall pass," bringing comfort and hope."Sophia has no friends at school and her home life is a disaster. The only person who has stuck by her is her boyfriend, Dane. The Year 12 boy is homeless, having put his baby brother and sister into foster care and in trying to help him, Sophia makes his dire situation a whole lot worse. Her actions open up a world of trouble for Dane, when a body is found at his old house and Sophia is forced to take even more risks to put her mess right.She had thought that Dane was changing from the 'bad boy' he had been, but overhearing a chance conversation, Sophia begins to doubt his character and must choose between helping him or letting him lose absolutely everything.Friendless and alone, she finds help in unexpected places and learns that forgiveness can be harder to accept, than to give. The first time K T Bowes won a writing competition she was six and the sound of the applause as she went up on stage stayed with her for at least half an hour. Then when they presented her with a Jaffa biscuit as a prize the shine wore off and she palmed it off on her baby sister after school. She wrote in her teenage years because the local paper paid money to kids for stories and she subsidised her role as sales assistant in a chip shop with her writing. Married with four children, her work history includes a variety of roles from law enforcement officer to chief pot and bottle washer in a hospital. She gained a drawer full of diplomas and certificates over the years for her numerous jobs but the most unused one was an honours degree in English.Eleven years ago after getting on a plane with a rucksack, a suitcase and a one way ticket to New Zealand with her family, K T Bowes dusted off her degree certificate and began to write again.Seven years later and she'd produced three novels which were published first on the book site which must not be named here. A few years on and she's an international best seller with nineteen books published under the Hakarimata Press label and available in most online retailers.K T Bowes is still in New Zealand and still married, but the four children she crossed the world with have all grown up and started doing incredible things of their own. Now in their twenties, they all seem to be stuck in the tertiary system as eternal students but one day they might find their way out - although they aren't currently looking for the exit. She visits them there regularly and sends food parcels and money.She used to horse ride but kept falling off and breaking bones so now stays almost safely on the treadmill - almost safely because she has fallen off that too. Her constant writing companion is a ginger cat called Nahla who sleeps in her desk drawer and follows her everywhere, begging for her picture to go on Twitter.

"You hate too many things, Cal," he sighed, brushing stray curls away from her face. "Your heart doesn't have room for it all."When Callister Rhodes runs away from home, she expects to leave her problems far behind. Persuading a classmate to take her into the bush on Mount Pirongia, they stumble on a secret that is not easily forgotten and its menace follows her back to Hamilton, staining her new life with old, familiar wounds.What happens in the bush should stay in the bush, but it won't. As the consequence of what they did wraps itself around the teenagers, they find themselves in danger. Calli realises all too late that the demons in her past have come full circle and want payback.The treacherous New Zealand bush offers Calli love and salvation before snatching both cruelly away. But in her quest to find escape she is forced to test her own limits and ultimately, find herself.This storyline contains issues such as mental illness, self-harming and the theme of rape is touched upon, but not explicitly.Blaming the Child has earned five stars from Readers' Favorite and a top genre winner's seal in the Authors' Cave Book Awards 2014 in the romance genre. The first time K T Bowes won a writing competition she was six and the sound of the applause as she went up on stage stayed with her for at least half an hour. Then when they presented her with a Jaffa biscuit as a prize the shine wore off and she palmed it off on her baby sister after school. She wrote in her teenage years because the local paper paid money to kids for stories and she subsidised her role as sales assistant in a chip shop with her writing. Married with four children, her work history includes a variety of roles from law enforcement officer to chief pot and bottle washer in a hospital. She gained a drawer full of diplomas and certificates over the years for her numerous jobs but the most unused one was an honours degree in English.Eleven years ago after getting on a plane with a rucksack, a suitcase and a one way ticket to New Zealand with her family, K T Bowes dusted off her degree certificate and began to write again.Seven years later and she'd produced three novels which were published first on the book site which must not be named here. A few years on and she's an international best seller with nineteen books published under the Hakarimata Press label and available in most online retailers.K T Bowes is still in New Zealand and still married, but the four children she crossed the world with have all grown up and started doing incredible things of their own. Now in their twenties, they all seem to be stuck in the tertiary system as eternal students but one day they might find their way out - although they aren't currently looking for the exit. She visits them there regularly and sends food parcels and money.She used to horse ride but kept falling off and breaking bones so now stays almost safely on the treadmill - almost safely because she has fallen off that too. Her constant writing companion is a ginger cat called Nahla who sleeps in her desk drawer and follows her everywhere, begging for her picture to go on Twitter.

A teenage runaway. A mountain of secrets. This mistake might cost her everything.A lie underpins Callister's home life, one that accidentally spews free and taints everything it touches. It's no surprise that it horrifies her enough to run, hoping to leave the devastation behind. But the mountain is no place to hide, not for a vulnerable teenage girl. Persuading a classmate to go with her, Calli leads him into a frightening trap which can't be ignored. What happens in the bush should stay in the bush, but it won't. As the consequence of what they did wraps itself around the teenagers, they find themselves hunted. Calli realises all too late that the demons in her past have come full circle and they want payback.A quote from the novel. "You hate too many things, Cal," he sighed, brushing stray curls away from her face. "Your heart doesn't have room for it all."

Seventeen and in love, Sophia Armitage has the world at her feet. Until her father starts acting weird.Why would a man who's never shown an interest in social media create a secret Facebook page and start talking about moving south?As her life begins to unravel, Sophia's convinced her father's involved with an online catfish. She and bad-boy heart throb, Dane, set out to stop Edgar making one of the worst decisions of his life but when he puts the family home up for sale, they realise it might be too late.Heading to the southern city of Palmerston North to hunt down the woman manipulating a vulnerable man, the teenagers discover the difference between fishing and phishing first hand and break their own relationship in the process. The first time K T Bowes won a writing competition she was six and the sound of the applause as she went up on stage stayed with her for at least half an hour. Then when they presented her with a Jaffa biscuit as a prize the shine wore off and she palmed it off on her baby sister after school. She wrote in her teenage years because the local paper paid money to kids for stories and she subsidised her role as sales assistant in a chip shop with her writing. Married with four children, her work history includes a variety of roles from law enforcement officer to chief pot and bottle washer in a hospital. She gained a drawer full of diplomas and certificates over the years for her numerous jobs but the most unused one was an honours degree in English.Eleven years ago after getting on a plane with a rucksack, a suitcase and a one way ticket to New Zealand with her family, K T Bowes dusted off her degree certificate and began to write again.Seven years later and she'd produced three novels which were published first on the book site which must not be named here. A few years on and she's an international best seller with nineteen books published under the Hakarimata Press label and available in most online retailers.K T Bowes is still in New Zealand and still married, but the four children she crossed the world with have all grown up and started doing incredible things of their own. Now in their twenties, they all seem to be stuck in the tertiary system as eternal students but one day they might find their way out - although they aren't currently looking for the exit. She visits them there regularly and sends food parcels and money.She used to horse ride but kept falling off and breaking bones so now stays almost safely on the treadmill - almost safely because she has fallen off that too. Her constant writing companion is a ginger cat called Nahla who sleeps in her desk drawer and follows her everywhere, begging for her picture to go on Twitter.

He said it was fine. She believed him. It wasn't. There's only one good thing in Sophia's life and he just let her down.When her boyfriend is attacked, she sets out to help him, only to find he's implicated in a murder. Desperate to prove him innocent, Sophia uncovers something far worse when an overheard conversation shatters all her dreams of a happy ending. The fragile trust she placed in Dane is smashed in an instant and she's left with the worst dilemma of her life.Will she risk her own heart and help him, or face watching him lose everything?