Dark Rivers to Cross, Lynne Reeves
Dark Rivers to Cross, Lynne Reeves
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Dark Rivers to Cross

Author: Lynne Reeves

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/08/2022


Synopsis

For two decades, Lena Blackwell has kept her sons at her side, teaching them everything she knows about running their successful river lodge in Northern Maine. But what she really wants is to keep her boys in the dark about their tragic past. Her son Luke is right where he belongs, working at the family inn sheltered by acres of pine forest that stretch along the Penobscot River. So when his adopted brother, Jonah, threatens to upend their peaceful life by searching for his biological parents, Luke refuses to help. Lena is determined to thwart Jonah’s search to uncover his own history. But the unexpected arrival of old friends looking for a weekend off the grid at the inn throws her plans into disarray. Little does she know, Jonah has already gleaned enough information to set in motion a deadly reckoning. Luke may not want to know anything about his family, but he’s caught between the hard truths his brother is determined to expose and the devastating secret his mother is desperate to keep—at any cost. Dark Rivers to Cross sensitively explores inherited trauma and the stories we tell the ones we love. It’s about what one mother is willing to sacrifice for her children.

About Lynne Reeves

Lynne Reeves is an internationally recognized family counselor and novelist. Her short fiction, essays, and articles have appeared in Parents, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Fiction Writers Review, Brain, Child, and more. She regularly appears as a media guest expert to discuss contemporary family life and preventive mental health.

About Laura Jennings

Laura Jennings is a professional narrator and voiceover artist with an MFA in creative writing. Her intrinsic appreciation of the techniques that comprise storytelling allows her to analyze the underlying moods and currents of a book and bring them into her interpretation of it. An avid reader, she enjoys a quiet lifestyle in the Pacific Northwest with her loving husband and aged beagle, Dottie.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melany on March 19, 2022

Wow, absolutely speechless. This book had me feeling so many emotions from beginning to end. While I was reading it, I thought I knew how it would play out.... boy was I wrong! So many twists and turns that led me to be completely saturated into the story word by word. I could not get enough of this......more

Goodreads review by Heather Adores Books on September 07, 2024

3⭐ Genre ~ domestic thriller Setting ~ Maine Publication date ~ November 8, 2022 Publisher ~ Crooked Lane Books Est Page Count ~ 283 (28 chapters) Audio length ~ 7 hours 48 minutes Narrator ~ Laura Jennings POV ~ multiple 3rd Featuring ~ multiple timelines, secrets, domestic abuse, off page rape, murder, slo......more

Goodreads review by Grace on August 26, 2022

Lena Blackwell has lived in Maine with her two sons for the last twenty years. She runs a lodge on the river while teaching the boys all she knows about the business of hospitality. More than anything, she wants to keep them safe. She has spun a tale about where they came from, desperately trying to......more

Goodreads review by Atlasi on August 01, 2023

for almost twenty years Lena had kept his boys by herself, telling them that though they are much loves, they're adopted, and everything is fine until one of the boys fells the need to find his birth parents. Lena reacts almost irrationally to this news and finds her perfect and quiet life at the ed......more

Goodreads review by Chandra on April 16, 2022

Dark Rivers to Cross by Lynne Reeves is an emotionally thrilling dark mystery centred around a mother who will sacrifice everything to keep her children safe. At the heart of the story are lies and secrets from the past. The storyline might trigger a few readers because of the graphic descriptions of......more