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She stole his world. He’s got twenty-four hours to get it back.

Although Liam Tallamore can’t remember the first fourteen years of his life, he’s built a happy home with his wife, Carly, and their two children in suburban New Jersey … until one Friday afternoon when everything changes.

While cashing his paycheck, he’s told his bank accounts have been emptied. Once at home, he learns Carly has left him for her first love—one he never knew existed. Most devastating of all, she’s taken their eight-year-old daughter, Rayelle, and is preparing to leave the country. As if things couldn’t get worse, he has no idea where their twenty-year-old son is or why he’s been unreachable for the past two months.

With total distrust in law enforcement and no clues to guide him, Liam hops on a train to New York City, Carly’s hometown. Through the next twenty-four hours, Liam goes on a wild, unforgiving, frantic search through rain-soaked Manhattan, experiencing the brightest and the darkest humanity has to offer. This is the story of a man who refuses to quit, determined to find “a needle in a haystack,” and who, in searching for the children he loves, doesn’t yet realize he’s searching for himself as well.

My Review:

Brodey tucked me into this book from the beginning. When there is strife and children in a marriage that was never the true and real love type, it tugs at my heart. I don’t want to give away much of this book, yet I must write my review so that anyone reading my review understands my thought process and the emotions I felt. Before I go on, 24 hours – yes, in 24 hours a lot can happen and more in less than a week. Children or a child kidnapped, the underbelly and underworld nuances of metro New York City, people who did prison time for different things, a father who adopted one child, and fathered another child only to have second child snatched away by a deceitful and malicious wife is more than enough for me to be sad and angry that the cruelty happened. Children should never have to go through such trauma and harm. And a 20 year old son should not have to hide out just so he’s not kidnapped and also taken to Italy of all places. Bad things happen to everyone in real life. That said, good things can happen to offset the pain and loss in one’s heart. The way the author wove these elements together, the speed and frenetic pace in just 24 hours in NYC, strangers on a train, meeting a homeless man, working through a disassociate person’s struggles, and a lot more blend perfectly with the laughter and joy of love, rescue, finding family, and enjoying life, despite the horrors of abuse and loss, being unloved by one’s father for his brother, who spent time in prison, blame placed wrongly, I can go on and on. This story has all of this and a lot more. It touched my heart deeply. Well done!