num_pages: 342
description: She helps people put their demons to rest.But she has a few of her ownIn the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people and she has the desirehealing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesnt want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia and her daughter Lisa is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years.When a distraught woman Heather Simeon is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt Nadine gently coaxes her story out of herand learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn the groups leader bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today? And then the unthinkable happens and Nadine realizes that danger is closer to home than she ever imagined. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the mostand fight back. Sometimes you can leave the past but you can never escape.
language: English
title: Always Watching
publisher: St. Martin's Press