by Kathleen Guire
The Girl Who Didn’t Exist
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A girl with no name. No birth record. She’s the girl who doesn’t exist.
Her mother has kept her in a closet for most of her brief life. She’s never been outside or sat in the sunshine.
To survive, she eats the paint off the walls. To stay sane, she draws with a stubby pencil she finds on the floor.
Until social services knock on the door, rescue her, and deliver her to the hospital where her physical body heals. But her soul wounds run deep.
Living in the orphanage presents a new set of challenges.
In her struggle for survival, Adelina takes risky actions that could land her in the same institution where her mother is being treated for psychosis.
The Girl Who Didn’t Exist is a novella from the Adelina Thriller series.
by Kathleen Guire
The Girl Who Was Trafficked
A missing friend. A mysterious newcomer. An orphanage full of secrets.
At five years old, Adelina began her life as an orphan. Ten years later she finally has a shot at adoption and a home.
So does her best friend, Daria.
Then a mysterious intern appears at the orphanage and everything begins to unravel. Daria’s adoption falls through. Then she disappears.
Only Adelina believes Daria was abducted. She can’t trust anyone. So she goes it alone.
When Adelina’s investigation leads her to the intern’s front door, she discovers a dark secret.
What really happened to Daria? Was she trafficked?
Can Adelina find her on her own? Or will she succumb to the same fate?
The Girl Who Was Targeted, the first in the Adelina Thriller, series introduces you to her quirky coping mechanism. It’s a nonstop thriller with plot twists and turns that keep you guessing until the last second.
by Kathleen Guire
The Girl Who Was Targeted
Visitors from her past life. An old nemesis. Sucked back into the world of human trafficking.
Adelina is finally settling into her new life and family. She’s almost left her coping mechanism of reciting definitions and poetry behind.
Then someone from her past shows up at her doorstep with disturbing news- the human trafficker she took down in Poland is here in the United States looking for her. She launches into the dangerous world of human trafficking again.
The Girl Who Was Targeted, the second in the Adelina Thriller series, is a nonstop thriller that will leave you hanging on the edge of your seat until the very last second. Kathleen Guire continues Adelina’s story with all of her coping mechanisms still intact. You’ll want to grab your copy now and join Adelina to see if/how she survives this time.
by Kathleen Guire
The Girl Who Was Blacklisted
The phone rings. A desperate caller. Human trafficking of a different sort.
Adelina finally feels secure in her home and family. She’s ready to launch into adulthood, get married, and move away from her forever family.
She’s left her coping mechanisms of defining words and reciting poetry behind… that is until she answers the phone at the Crisis Pregnancy Center.
The caller on the other end pulls her back into the dangerous world of human trafficking.
She takes a deep dive into the cultural issues and a different species of human trafficking. She’s at odds with her team, government agencies, and her old inner demons.
When her own team aids in blacklisting her she must take down the trafficker/pedophile on her own.
by Kathleen Guire
The Girl Who Hunted
Two foster kids. A drug-addicted mother. A mountain full of lies.
Two foster kids delivered by a social worker to Adelina’s door with nothing except a garbage bag of belongings and fear.
Although Nathaniel and Adelina have finished the parenting classes -nothing could have prepared them for what the two kiddos-Sawyer and Payton have been through -being trafficked by their own family.
When the bio mother comes looking for Sawyer and Payton, bringing her mountain men with her, the whole parenting plan begins to unravel.
Now Adelina is faced with not only protecting her new kiddos but bringing down a familial trafficking ring that has taken over the whole mountain. Adelina must find who is behind the trafficking ring. Or will Adelina’s new kiddos be sucked back into the system? Or worse, the trafficking ring.
by Kathleen Guire
The Girl Who Was Haunted
Trafficked Teens. An Old Nemesis. A New Reich.
The International Task Force for Safe Children assigns Adelina Jones to go undercover in Sulejów, Poland, to uncover the truth about the terrifying disappearances of teen orphans.
Adelina feels compelled to go upon hearing the news of teens being trafficked from the orphanage where she was adopted. These are the same children she looked after as a teenager.
Accompanied by her FBI friends Kat and Jim, she takes her family and the International Task Force for Safe Children (ITFSC) on a flight to Poland. Upon reaching Warsaw, she’s haunted by her old nemesis. Has he been raised from the dead? In her hometown village, the New Reich invades and history repeats itself. The New Reich targets teens to build their New World Order.
If Adelina doesn’t stop them, the New World Order will empty the orphanage, the village, and swallow up the entire nation. Not to mention the ghost of missions past—if he doesn’t stop haunting Adelina, she may lose her sanity and her family.
Adelina survived being trafficked once. But will she survive again? With members of the team deserting her, others she can’t trust, orphans kidnapped from the foyer of the orphanage, and others believing the false promises of the New World Reich, she must hold it together and rescue them.
