![]() ![]() Agent: Jeff Kleinman, Folio Literary Management. Helena’s conflicting emotions about her father and her own identity elevate this powerful story. ![]() To the world, Jacob was a monster to Helena, he was just her father, who taught her to fish, hunt, and track, and told involving stories, and was occasionally brutal. Detailed flashbacks show Helena had an odd but decent childhood. His brothers seek to spill his blood for his past that he cannot remember. Their lives threatened by another vicious king. Knowing how he thinks, Helena is the only one who can find Jacob. Shes the illegitimate daughter born to an exiled king. ![]() No one, not even Stephen, knows her background, until Jacob escapes from prison after 13 years, killing two guards before disappearing into the woods less than 30 miles from the Pelletiers’ house. When Helena was about 12, she and her mother escaped, their rescue making international headlines. Her mother was kidnapped at age 14 by Jacob Holbrook and taken to a remote cabin, where Helena was born three years later. Helena Pelletier, the narrator of Dionne’s ( Freezing Point) exceptional hardcover debut, a psychological thriller, lives an ordinary life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula-mother to five-year-old Iris and three-year-old Mari, wife to Stephen-but her childhood was not normal. ![]()
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