The
Long Road Home
by
J H Morgan
Genre:
Romantic Suspense, Thriller
Emily
Winter has spent more than half her life hiding from her past and the
demons that still reside in it. She has tried to hide her pain with
booze and mindless sex, never letting anyone close.
When
her social worker and the closest thing to a friend she’s ever had
calls Emily for help, Emily knows she can’t say no. Paige’s
daughter Casey had been kidnapped and held for days in a foreign
land. Paige knows the only person who could understand what Casey is
going through would be Emily.
Going
back to the town she hated, Emily is confronted with her past in more
ways than one. Besides trying to help Casey work through her trauma,
Emily discovers someone remembers more about her past than anyone
else in town, and that someone is eager to pick up where they left
off.’In order for Emily to survive, she will have to confront her
own demons, the ones in her mind and the real ones waiting to finish
the job they started years before.
"Nothing
less than a masterclass in the sculpting of a raw, emotional and
thoroughly compelling work of fiction." The Scotsman
"A
book that takes you on an epic, emotional journey of brilliance."
Yorkshire Post
Married
to her best friend, journalist J. H. Morgan has three children under
the age of seven and considers parenting to be the greatest adventure
of her life. She lives in the tiny African kingdom of Swaziland,
where she works full-time and writes in the middle of the night.
After reading every book she owned or could borrow, she began writing
her own stories.
Morgan's
extraordinary life experiences and those of the people closest to her
inspire her writing and give her valuable insight into the painful
world of addiction. She completely understands the need to start life
anew and the consequences such a decision triggers.
GUEST POST
How did you come up with the concept and characters for the book?
Tell us about the main characters – what makes them tick? Are you
characters built of real people or did they all come entirely from
your imagination? Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do
you feel like you have the reigns of the story?
Every single character in The Long Road
Home is based on someone I know, or in some cases, more than one
person. I like to think there might be a small part of me in most of
them, (not all of them I hope!) but for the most part, the main
characters are built around the strongest, most incredible people I
know. The three main characters, Emily, Paige and Casey were all
meant to be slightly different in habits and experiences than how
they turned out, but I found as I went through the process of writing
their stories, their personalities and traits took on a life of their
own, but their fundamental personalities are exactly as I hoped they
would be and they are all three women I am proud to know in real
life.
My favourite character is Paige.
Although she’s an incredibly strong woman who’s spent her life
helping others and looking out for them, she also flawed and breaks
down when she can no longer be strong for others. She’s so
unequivocally human, so very much the true definition of a good and
decent woman, who manages to see through the walls people put up and
see the good in those who no longer see it in themselves.
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