Forensic Anthropologist Emma Graves knows about the dead. But can the dead help her remember why she’s still alive? When You Are Lost… frantic search through the cold, dark woods in the surrounding area began. As the sun rose the next morning, a cold and terrified Emma was found. Emma remembered little else beyond watching through the fractured windshield as her sister and her friend walked away from the bus to find help. Spring turned into summer and then to fall and the missing girls never came back.
When You Come Back…
Twenty-five years later Emma is all grown up. Though she is an acclaimed forensic anthropologist, her personal life is a different matter. After surviving another tragic accident, this one at a dig, Emma needs to hide somewhere and pull herself together again. After all, she has been fractured since she was eight years old, this breakdown has been coming for a long time. Going home is her only choice. The last thing she expected to find on her return was two more young girls missing. The small town is torn apart all over again. With Emma back, attention turns to her. What is she hiding? Why can’t she remember what really happened that day twenty-five years ago? Why is she back in town now and two more children are missing? When human remains are found deep in a cave that requires Emma’s expertise in retrieving them, the truth may just be more than anyone bargained for.
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Emma Graves has had some problems so heads back home to Jackson Falls to be alone as it’s time for her Mother’s, Helen, annual cruise with her friends. But when Emma arrives she’s surprised to find Helen home. Both have secrets of their own and neither one is coming clean.
It’s been 25 years since Emma’s sister, Natalie, and best friend, Stacey, walked away from a bus crash to get help and were never seen again. Now 2 more girls are missing. Lefte, Emma’s best friend and Sheriff of Jackson Falls, has her hands full with the girls and two cavers that are missing too.
After they are found, they have stumbled across something. Does it have anything to do with the 2 missing girls or with Emma’s sister and friend all those years ago. Emma helps Leyte with the discovery but will it answer any questions or just create more?
First off, the cover of this book is my all time favorite of Debra Webb’s. I truly believe it’s my favorite book of her’s too. I’ve read a lot but this book is in a league all it’s own. I truly did not see the ending coming so read and guess but be prepared for a shocker at the end.
I can not recommend this book enough. Enjoy.
This is a book that once you pick up you won’t want to put down. It is emotional and makes you wanna cry and mad. Debra did an awesome job of telling this this and keeping you in suspense. She does the twists and turns and keeps you where you don’t loose the trail she is going in.
She has Emma and her friend Letty trying to figure out what happen the her sister and her best friend 25years ago when the three girls where on a bus accident and the two oldest girls disappeared. How they go about finding the true and what they find out. I love her books they are very well written. I recomend this book who like suspense.
Emma is on her way home after school. She’s up front and, her sister and her sister’s best friend are in the back of the school bus when the driver has a heart attack, wrecks the bus and dies. Emma’s sister and her sister’s best friend disappear that day and are never found. Emma is known as “the girl who survived.” Fast forward to adulthood and, Emma is a Forensic Anthropologist who is digging up mass graves in the Middle East when her team is ambushed and again, she is the one who survives.
Two weeks after coming back to work, she has a breakdown while teaching a class. After she gets out of the hospital, she decides that she needs to return home to her small town and, her mother who never thought she was good enough, only to find that her mother had a heart attack about the same time she had her breakdown.
These broken women and their best friends also find out that two other teenagers are missing and, they decide to start down their own investigative road to solve a double kidnapping over two decades old.
I COULD NOT STOP READING THIS BOOK!!!!!
If I could I would give it TEN STARS!!!
This is a story YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS!!!!!
A family in a small town life is shaken after 2 girls go missing! The police search while a little sister is worried if they will find her sister. 25 years later Emma is struggling with her adult life and her mom is scheduled to be away from the home she grew up in! Needing time to think about the directions Emma’s life is going she returns to her small town home. Upon arrival things being to not go as planned! Concerns start with her mother and 2 other girls go missing just days after her arrival! She gets so involved and loses track of her stay, with the help of her school best friend Emma is able to piece her life back together present and past!
This book made me sit on the edge of my chair, stay up way past my bedtime reading, crying, and encouraging the characters to keep going! So many twists and turns through out the whole book and the ending says it all! I will be reading more of Debra Webb’s work in the future!
Such a great read!
**I am reviewing this book as an Advance Reader Copy for an honest review***
I loved this book! This is my first book by this author, I certainy will be looking for more books from her. I couldn’t put it down once I started it. It is full of suspense and mystery. The twists and turns kept me on the edge of my seat. It is a well written story that is creative and engaging. The characters brought the story to life and they just popped right of the pages. Emma is my favorite. She is a strong, determined woman who has her own demons as well as a past that haunts her. You won’t regret picking up this book. This is a must read.
I recieved an advance copy for an honest review.
This latest novel by the inimitable Debra Webb promises to be a real blockbuster. The story is one of loss, love, trust, friendship and family relationships. When Emma Graves, a forensic anthropologist returns home after a disgraceful incident at the university where she is teaching, she has no inkling that this return trip will be more than just a visit to her mother. Her sister and a friend disappeared twenty five years earlier after a bus accident, an accident from which Emma managed to escape physically. However, her emotional and psychological trauma continues and is a vital part of this intricately woven tale. As Emma and her friend, Sheriff Letty Cotton, set out to discover the truth of the girls’ disappearance, dark and powerful forces are at work in Jackson Falls to keep the truth hidden. This novel was one that I will not soon forget because of the drama and the fact that I was quickly involved in the story myself, desiring and yet fearing the truth. Readers of psychological suspense, thrillers and mysteries will want to read this book and will definitely enjoy the web of deceit that is woven into the story and slowly unfolds. What a fantastic book that deserves multiple readings!
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255, “Guides Concerning the Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Advertising.”
Debra Webb is a master at spinning a tale that is engrossing and has multiple twists and turns. You will have to be on your toes to guess the who’s the killer(s).
Emma Graves is an acclaimed forensic anthropologist who is having a crisis in her personal life. Helen is her mother. This story is told by both, weaving a tale that eventually winds together.
Twenty- five years in the past she and her teenage sister were in a bus accident. There were three of them on the bus and the driver. The driver had a heart attack at the wheel and lost control. Emma’s older sister Natalie and her sister’s best friend, Stacy left eight- year old Emma with the dying driver to go get help. They never returned.
Scared and cold Emma left the bus to go home but soon was lost in the unfamiliar woods. Freezing cold, not knowing which way to go she huddled in the bushes to keep warm. Emma was found the next day but the disappearance of the two girls has never been solved.
Emma has a meltdown when teaching her anthropology class and is hospitalized. Maybe it’s because of it being the 25th anniversary of her sister’s disappearance. That combined with the trauma of her recent experience of being trapped underground and watching her friend and coworker die before they were rescued, is haunting her.
Emma returns to her hometown to try and get her life together and figure out how to handle the PTSD she is now experiencing.
Letty is Emma’s best friend since childhood is now sheriff in their hometown and they renew their friendship quickly. Their mothers have been best friends forever. Supporting each other through one losing a teenage daughter and one who’s husband was blamed and ultimately killing himself. Then some cavers get lost in a collapsed cave and search and rescue is sent to get them out. As they emerged, they tell a bizarre tale of human bones being in the cave.
Letty and Emma embark on a mission to discover who’s bones they are, scared they could be Natalie and Stacy. United they form a team to once and for all find out who was responsible for Natalie and Stacy’s disappearance. Clues, and cold trails are re-pursued as they lay out all the evidence available.
Helen and Letty’s mother, Ginny work behind the scenes to protect the secrets they are burdened with and try to prove Letty’s father was innocent of the girl’s disappearance even with the new evidence against him.
Not until the very end will you find out the truth and what really happened.
Thank you, Debra Webb, for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. I truly recommend this book if you like mystery, great characters you can relate too and an ending that is the final twist.
When You Come Back was an amazing story. I was hooked from the start, and I could not put it down. The story was intense and captivating. This one is definitely an absolute must-read. Don’t miss out!
I was provided an advance reader copy by the publisher. Very good reading! Debra Webb keeps twists and turns going in this book that makes it hard to put it down. Emma is a strong, independent woman and when she teams with Letty you never know what they will find. Highly recommend you read this.
When You Come Back by Debra Webb I read and reviewed on my own.
This book is the newest suspense by Debra Webb and it takes the reader on Emma Graves emotional journey when she returns home and she is forced to deal with the memories of being the only one to return when three children disappeared after a school bus accident twenty five years ago. One of the girls still missing is her older sister.
Now after having a break down at work she returns home to find out that two more girls are missing and it seems like her nightmare is happening all over again. But with twist and turns in true Webb fashion the truth of what really happened twenty five years ago is uncovered and Emma and her family and friends finally gets the closure they have wanted for so long and a small town is rocked to its core.
This book will have you guessing and second guessing at every turn. Webb has another book that readers will not be able to put down on her hands.
When You Come Back gets five out of five stars.
I was given an advanced readers copy by the publisher to read.
Emma Graves returns home to check on her mother and is immediately drawn in to the disappearance of two teenage girls. When similarities are drawn to the twenty-five year old mystery surrounding Emma’s sisters disappearance, she’s compelled to stay and help the investigation. What follows is one shocking discovery after another. This book is so very good I could not put it down! Another winner from Debra Webb!
I’m so glad I found my way back to Debra Webb books! I used to be a huge Debra fan and some how I sort of drifted away, but I’m back!!!
I loved this book!!! The characters were awesome (even the ones I loved to hate!). There’s something for everyone…murder, kidnapping, heartbreak, thrills, twists/turns, and intrigue. I have to admit I was guessing for awhile, but I can honestly say I did figure it out.
When a book grabs you from the start and evokes all of your emotions and I mean all as I laughed, cried, shouted, I had no you didn’t moments and did that just happen moments, a few heart string moments, and even a couple I hate you moments, but I loved it all.
I truly hope there’s more Emma, the lying priest, Letty, Helen, and Ginny books to come…PLEASE.
#Emma, #Letty, #murder, #lyingpriest, #bestfriendsforlife
Debra Webb has never let me down when looking for a good read and once again she came through….BIG TIME!
I have struggled with this review because I want so much to get it right. This book is just so amazing. It is a mystery, a crime thriller and much much more!
Emma Graves was only eight years old when she was found in the woods alone after wandering away from a school bus accident. Her older sister and her sisters best friend were never found. Both had walked away to find help and neither had ever returned.
Twenty-five years later Emma is an acclaimed forensic anthropologist but finds herself back in her home town, looking for a place to hide and pull her life back together. Having never totally recovered from her childhood trauma and now suffering from PTSD after surviving a tragic accident, Emma finds her personal life in tatters.
But Emma comes back to a town once again torn apart by the disappearance of two girls, two children once again just gone!
When human remains are found deep in a cave that requires Emma’s expertise in retrieving them, the truth may just be more than anyone bargained for.
Although this book is a mystery, a crime thriller, it is so much more than that. It is a study of relationships, relationships between friends and between child and mother. It is about the damage trauma brings to a young girl and the burden of survivor’s guilt afterward and the struggle to cope with both. It is about perceptions, how one sees themselves inside of these relationships and how others see them.
It’s about looking out and looking in and how the view is different from either side.
This book is a true page-turner with a mystery that will keep you guessing all the way to the end BUT it is also a character-driven book with amazing depth and emotions.
This truly is a five-star read!
You have outdone yourself, Ms. Webb!
I absolutely loved this book! Halfway through the book I thought I had it figured it out. Boy was I wrong! lol Be prepared to have plenty of time to read this book. I literally read it in just two days! I definitely will read this one again!
The book was a great read , 5 stars
Emma is on her way home after school. She’ always sits behind the bus driver, while her sister and her sister’s best friend are in the back of the school bus when the driver has a heart attack, wrecks the bus and dies. Emma’s sister and her sister’s friend get off the bus to find help leaving Emma alone with the dead driver. The girls disappear that day and are never found. Emma becomes “the girl who survived.”
Twenty five years later Emma is now a Forensic Anthropologist who is digging up mass graves in the Middle East when her team is ambushed and again, she is the one who survives. Two weeks after coming back to work, she suffers a breakdown while teaching a class. She is suffering PTSD and when she gets out of the hospital decides that she to return home to her small town. Also, to see her mother who never thought she was good enough. Once she gets home she discovers that her mother had a heart attack about the same time she had her breakdown.
Emma’s childhood friend Letty, now the local sheriff renew their friendship as they pull together to find what happened to two other teenagers who are missing. Also, they decide that it is time to really find out what happened all those years ago to Emma’s sister Natalie and her friend, Stacey.
This story brings to light the very real emotions of survivors guilt that is experienced and rarely given the attention it deserves. The author has highlighted some of the areas that survivors experince such as PTSD and how different people handle resentment, fear, love and loss differently. When You Come Back deals with a lot of emotion.
This book was amazing!! It was very hard to put down and I had to find out what happened all those years ago. I rooted for Emma and Letty as well as their mothers as they traveled this very hard road. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves thrillers, this is a must read!!! I received an ARC from the author for an honest review.
Ms. Webb has knocked it out of the park with this one!
When You Come Back is an ‘up all night’ thriller. Once you start reading you won’t be able to put it down until the last page has been turned.
The suspense builds layer by layer, the tension mounts like a fine tuned crescendo, and when the final secrets are revealed, you won’t believe your eyes.
If you don’t read another book this year, READ this one. You won’t be disappointed.
5 Stars from beginning to end.