Follow the Creek

Hannah Ruth Tucker was born into a life of hardship and misery. Living on a failing farm along Copper Creek in rural Tennessee, she loses her two baby sisters and, in short order, her mother all to pneumonia, leaving her with a mentally challenged older brother and an alcoholic, abusive father. Then one night, she is abducted by a local trapper who has severe psychological damage and attaches his fantasies to the small child. He subjects her to deep physical and emotional trauma. When she finally evades her kidnapper, she is found by a kindly widow who supplies her the first real home she has ever known. Later, we follow a grown-up Hannah through years of being on the run from the same man who has constantly stalked and hunted her, causing her to reinvent herself from state to state. She does what she must to survive and escape him, eventually being sought by the FBI for crimes committed in her flight. This thriller will lead you on a dizzying chase, as a young woman fights for her life to find freedom and a normal existence. Detectives and the FBI investigate to make sense of a case that defies comprehension at times and keeps the reader on a fine edge as you Follow the Creek to find a way back home.