Finding Emma, Steena Holmes
Finding Emma, Steena Holmes
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Finding Emma

Author: Steena Holmes

Narrator: Natalie Ross

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/26/2013

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

A mother’s near-obsessive devotion to her missing daughter threatens to destroy more than one family.Megan is the harried but happy stay-at-home mother of three little girls living in a small town. Her life implodes when her youngest daughter, Emma, disappears on her third birthday.Two years later, Megan is preparing to commemorate Emma’s birthday and the anniversary of her kidnapping, compelled to keep her name alive in the minds of her community and her family. Her commitment to Emma, however, borderlines on obsession as she follows the families of little girls who look like the daughter she lost.Her obsession with finding Emma has distanced Megan from both friends and family. Her two older daughters are resentful of her relentless and fruitless search for their sister, and her husband pleads with her to accept that Emma is gone so that the family can move on with their lives.Meanwhile, in the same small town, Jack is beginning to question his wife’s secrecy about their adored granddaughter, Emmie. As Dottie slips into dementia and becomes increasingly protective over Emmie, he can’t help but wonder if there could be a dark secret that Dottie is keeping from him.Jack and Megan’s worlds finally intersect at the town carnival, when Megan snaps a photograph of a little girl on her grandfather’s shoulders.

About Steena Holmes

Steena Holmes grew up in a small town in Canada and holds a bachelor’s degree in Theology. She is the author of one previous novel, Chocolate Reality. In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing. She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughters and loves to wake up to the Rocky Mountains each morning.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bette on March 23, 2012

Loved this book. It is the story of a Mother who child is there one moment and gone the next. You might think a woman who went through this would give up on life completely, but Megan can't. She has two other children and a husband to consider. This is truly a heart-wrenching story that will send yo......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on March 13, 2012

Finding Emma is a story that goes straight to the heart. Suspenseful and gripping, the reader experiences the full range of emotions as author Steena Holmes artfully guides us through an experience we all hope we never face. Megan and Peter, the parents of three sweet daughters, begin the long journ......more

Goodreads review by Laura on September 13, 2017

It's somewhat of a gamble picking up a freebie in the Kindle library, sometimes that gamble pays off and other times it doesn't. Although this story had lots of favourable ratings, I wasn't impressed, although I did give it the benefit of the doubt. The writing nor the storyline is absolutely terribl......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on August 28, 2018

This was a very empathetic read. Very moving. And any parents worst nightmare. Two years ago three year old Emma went missing from her home/yard. One minute she is with her family and the next gone. No trace or clues are found as to what happened. I cannot even begin to truly imagine what that must......more

Goodreads review by PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps on November 10, 2012

A 3 to girl disappears, leaving her parents and 2 sisters in perpetual unrest two years afterward. Elsewhere, two grandparents are raising their 5 yo granddaughter. There's no mystery, the girls even have similar names, Emma and Emmie. The characters are likable, albeit one-dimnensional, the plot pred......more