Those Girls

 Those Girls by Chevy Stevens  376 pages

Summary from Goodreads: Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father’s fists. One night, a fight gets out of hand and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation. They are left with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.

Eighteen years later, they are still trying to forget what happened that summer when one of the sisters goes missing and they are pulled back into their past.

This time there’s nowhere left to run.

And here's what I thought: I discovered one book by Chevy Stevens and now I've started working my way through the rest of her books. This story isn't just a tense, psychological suspense story, but also an exploration of the bonds of sisters and family and how far someone will go to protect the ones they love. As you can tell from the summary, the story begins with something pretty bad . . .  and it actually gets worse.  The tension starts in the first pages and doesn't let up, even as the thread of it might wax and wane throughout the story. The characters are believable, and actually, even the horrific situations are pretty realistic. This is a nail-biter type of pageturner.