So unexpected is this event that Kate simply cannot seem to take it in and recover from it. Just when she feels as if she's never going to be sane again, she gets a text from a blocked number that takes her on a mind bending journey into her daughter, Amelia's, life in the short weeks prior to her death. What she finds while on this twisting path will forever alter her and what she thinks she knows about herself as well as her daughter.

Told in various forms of text messages, Facebook posts and first and third person, RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA moves from the present to the past to the present again. Readers get to know Amelia as the story progresses and by the end; there are no lingering questions as to what actually happened. The journey of getting to that point, however, is a very disturbing and intense one.

I was instantly caught up in the lives of Kate and Amelia. Their pain became mine. There were moments in this book that I wanted to scream at both of them. They were on different paths, certainly, but the one thing that held them together is the love they had for each other.

The twists and turns in RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA are like none that you've ever experienced in a story. Nothing is ever as it seems and, at times, it seems as if Kate may have simply fallen down a Rabbit Hole. But she perseveres on her mission to find out exactly what happened to Amelia on that fateful day. As a mother, nothing can stop her from digging as deeply as she has to in order to find the answers, even if she may not be ready for what they are.

RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA is an absorbing story and draws you into its pages. Be forewarned that you may want to start reading it when you have a lot of free time because once you begin; it's a very difficult book to put down for any reason.

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