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Home Again: A Bob the Caretaker
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ISBN13: 9798182383639
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 20 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Home Again is a brutal, clear-eyed thriller about the places that call themselves safe while teaching children to fear the sound of their own names.
Now going by Joseph Ward, Bob Andrews takes a temporary job at a remote West Virginia residential treatment center - a place that smells of Pine-Sol, old fear, and money spent on everything except the children. The brochures promise healing. The walls tell a different story.
Now going by Joseph Ward, Bob Andrews takes a temporary job at a remote West Virginia residential treatment center - a place that smells of Pine-Sol, old fear, and money spent on everything except the children. The brochures promise healing. The walls tell a different story.
When Bob meets a boy named Eli Mercer, a child who counts exits instead of trusting adults, he recognizes the same pattern he's seen in care homes, universities, and nonprofits across the country: institutions that hide their violence behind mission statements and clean floors.
But Home Again is worse. Here, the doors don't just close - they lock. And the people who hurt children call it therapy.
To protect Eli, Bob will have to cross lines he's never crossed before... and decide whether coming home is a promise or a threat.
Home Again is the fifth book in the Bob the Caretaker series, following House Rules, No Visitors, The Ivory Tower, and Borderlines - a continuing journey through the institutions America trusts most, and the man who walks into them under a new name each time to see what they're trying to hide.
But Home Again is worse. Here, the doors don't just close - they lock. And the people who hurt children call it therapy.
To protect Eli, Bob will have to cross lines he's never crossed before... and decide whether coming home is a promise or a threat.
Home Again is the fifth book in the Bob the Caretaker series, following House Rules, No Visitors, The Ivory Tower, and Borderlines - a continuing journey through the institutions America trusts most, and the man who walks into them under a new name each time to see what they're trying to hide.
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