This is the fifth book in The Shadow of Daddy Serial Thriller. A serial is a collection of books intended to be read in order. Each book is a sequential instalment of a larger story presented in bite size pieces, like a mini-series on TV.
Cruel Shadow continues the story in the eight-book serial of the heroine’s determination to protect her son and daughter. Based on a true story, it was cases like this criminal thriller that shaped significant legal changes.
Throughout this serial, the reader follows not only the development of the criminal case but the personal transformation of the family members, their parenting and relationship styles, and the slow unravelling of their secret lives. Digging deeper, the book emphasises the delusional psychological state of one of the main characters and the impact on others.
Betrayal by the legal system that Julie assumed would help her children escape the psychological thriller they had been living, led the family into a parallel reality with the threatening shadow of the ex-husband looming over them.
While healing their wounds and continuing to establish new lives in Arizona, the older child’s face is appearing on milk cartons and the back of trucks.