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Kidnapped on her way home from a summer festival in her corn-country hamlet of Eudora, Kansas, 16-year-old Blythe Hallowell spends the next two decades of her life in an abandoned Cold War-era missile silo, dozens of feet underground. Her abductor, high-school librarian Dobbs Hordin, is a “conspiracy theory du jour” survivalist who has chosen Blythe to play Eve to his Adam when the apocalypse comes. Having outfitted the silo with all the building blocks for a new civilization, Blythe and Dobbs are left to play a deadly and protracted waiting game as one scenario for annihilation after another fails to occur. And then one day, well into middle age and accompanied by the teenage son she bore while in captivity, Blythe manages to escape her insane captor’s grasp, only to find that one of Dobbs’ worst-case predictions has actually come to pass. Morley crafts a menacingly sinister tale of imprisonment and eerily inventive story of survival that will appeal to fans of riveting psychological suspense and cut-throat dystopian fiction. --Carol Haggas
Review
“Quite moving…intriguing and provocative." (Kirkus Reviews)
“Morley tells a compelling story that builds suspense…a true page-turner. Half abduction story half dystopianfiction, this novel will appeal to fans of both.” (Library Journal)
"Reeled out with the chilling calmness of a Hitchcock film,
Above haunts as it illuminates. Deftly told, this tale of human resilience in the face of madness is a horror classic for our times." (Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Poe)
"The isolation and darkness wrap you like wild vines and force you to face the nightmare, but
Above plunges you forward and drives toward hope, because sometimes that's all that remains. This is a novel that challenges you to believe." (Michael Farris Smith, author of Rivers)
“Morley crafts a menacingly sinister tale of imprisonment and eerily inventive story of survival that will appeal to fans of riveting psychological suspense and cut-throat dystopian fiction.” (Booklist)
“Morley’s writing is magnetic, instantly attaching the reader to the story. We see, we feel, and we cringe at the victim’s circumstances.”
(NY Journal of Books)
"Morley scores with an audacious page-turner. In a series of gripping twists, Morley elevates the complexities of Blythe and Adam’s situation, deepening the themes of survival and dependence… a stellar and surprising ride.” (Publishers Weekly)
"A riveting, heartstopping tale of determination, love and hope for the future." (Fiction Addiction)
“A compelling tale of survival, reinvention, and hope. . . . Vivid and poignant.” (The Boston Globe)
“Grips your heart from the first page and doesn’t let go. . . . A novel to savor.” (Sara Gruen)
“A poignant, read-in-one-sitting tale . . . [that] firmly establishes Morley in the pantheon of such insightful authors as Chris Bohjalian, Sue Miller, and Anita Shreve.” (Booklist)
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