A Deep Dark Secret

Name: A Deep Dark Secret
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby
ISBN: 9781440775420

Author: Kimberla Lawson Roby

Narrator: Cherise Boothe

Unabridged: 4 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/06/2009

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby has won adoring fans for her Rev. Curtis Black series, which includes Recorded Books' audio presentation of The Best of Everything. In A Deep Dark Secret, a seemingly perfect 12-year-old girl harbors a terrible secret-one that threatens to tear her world apart. But the girl also houses a surprising inner strength, and the power to hope may just be what saves her.

About Kimberla Lawson Roby

Kimberla Lawson Roby is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Prodigal Son, A House Divided, and The Perfect Marriage. She is a 2013 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work-Fiction, the recipient of the 2013 Author of the Year-Female Award presented by the African-American Literary Award Show, and the recipient of the 2014 AAMBC Award for Female Author of the Year. In 2001, she was inducted into the Rock Valley College Alumni Hall of Fame. Kimberla resides in Illinois with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vannessa

A Deep Dark Secret will be a challenging read for those who are survivors of sexual abuse but it’s a very important read. Kimberla Lawson Roby does a great job at delicately telling the story of a teenage girl whose father forced her to have sex with him since she was five years old. The author lets......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

An emotional heartbreaking yet necessary story.......more

Goodreads review by Shonda

A Deep Dark Secret is a disturbing novel about a young girl who is being molested by her step-father. The molestation begins when she is seven on the night her baby sister is born. Now Jillian is twelve and the abuse has escalated between her father. Jillian's father has threatened her if she breaks......more

Goodreads review by Mayda

Author Kimerla Lawson Roby takes a taboo subject and handles it with thoughtful sensitivity. A mother marries, a stepfather abuses his five-year-old stepdaughter, and the daughter grows up, fearing and loathing him. He manipulates her physically and mentally, and the only thing that keeps her going......more