The Marsh King's Daughter

In Karen Dionne's The Marsh King's Daughter, this standalone thriller will have you at the edge of your seat in every single page. For Helena Pelletier, she had once lived an ideal life with her husband and two daughters. But when word around about her father's prison break, it shattered the peacefulness she shared with her family in Michigan. She had hidden a dark secret about her upbringing, her parents, and who she used to be. And that might splinter her marriage like a shard of glass.  As she sent her husband and two young daughters away, she promised herself that she would track him down right to the end. As she trailed him, she flashbacked to where she lived in the cabin with her mother and narcissistic and abusive father, how she learned to live outdoors from the outside world. There was so much out there she didn't know about until her mother concealed the truth from her and betrayed her trust. While she followed in his footsteps through the marshy lands, she recalled how cruel he was to her mother and to her, and how she planned their escape to turn him in. Later, she caught up to him in a face-to-face battle to fight for her survival and to save her marriage in an intense climax.

This was a nail-biting and mind-blowing thriller. I loved the vast locations of the marsh lands in Michigan from the rustic cabin in the past to where it is in everyday present life. I loved the intricate descriptions and visual images of each and every setting to tell this story. I instantly cared for Helena and how she endured and thrived as a young child in a complex household and how she grew up to take care of her own young family. She became no ordinary heroine who had emotional scars that were too hard for her to contain and to conceal. This would make you want to root for her in this ultimate fight of survival of life and death with non-stop action, drama, suspense and mystery.

Will you join forces to stop her father in The Marsh King's Daughter tonight?