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Reasons
Paperback
Series: When Bad Things Happen, Book 5
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781036707545
Publisher: Vinci Books Ltd
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A psychological thriller about a woman who gave up her children to save them, and the grown daughter who comes back asking why. Emotionally driven domestic suspense about generational poverty, impossible choices and the cost of survival.
She swore she'd never become her mother. But some legacies refuse to let go.
Sally's childhood wasn't a childhood at all. Cold nights in the backseat of a car. Empty cupboards. A mother who disappeared when she was needed most.
By twelve, she was the one holding the family together--barely.
Years later, Sally does the unthinkable--the one thing people say no mother should ever do.
But what if it was the only way to protect her children?
So she let them go.
Now the past is circling back. One of the children she gave up is standing on her doorstep. And with her return come the questions Sally has tried her whole life not to answer.
Is survival the same as love? And can the damage we do ever be undone?
A raw and emotionally charged psychological thriller, Reasons is part of the When Bad Things Happen series--gripping tales of ordinary women, impossible choices, and the haunting cost of survival.
Praise for the When Bad Things Happen Series:
★★★★★ The characters are normal people that are you and me and my neighbors and my friends and family. The characters are us. All of us.
★★★★★ These books are addictive. I just keep wanting to read more!
★★★★★ This book series is one you start and can't put down. Recommend it.
★★★★★ This story grabbed me and wouldn't let go... it kept me up way too late many nights because I couldn't put it down.
★★★★★ Kept me up all night, in a good way, to finish it.
★★★★★ The story is compelling to the point of me not being able to do anything but read until I found out how it ended.
★★★★★ Edge-of-your-seat reading that you can't put down.
★★★★★ It was a believable plot with the main character so well defined it was like you knew her.
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