Review: Taken by Dee Henderson.
Abducted at the age of sixteen and coerced into assisting the Jacoby crime family, Shannon Bliss has finally found a way out. She desperately wants to resume some semblance of normal life, but she also knows she has some unfinished business to attend to. She has enough evidence to put her captors behind bars for a very long time. When Shannon contacts private investigator and former cop Matthew Dane to help her navigate her reentry into society, she quickly discovers that gaining her freedom doesn’t mean her troubles are over. For one thing, her brother is the leading candidate in the race for Illinois governor, and news of her escape will create a media frenzy. For another, the ransom her family reportedly paid years earlier appears to have been a scam; no one knows what happened to the money. And then there’s the fact that Shannon’s escape involved faking her own death. If the Jacoby family learns she is still alive, they’ll stop at nothing to silence her. If justice is to be done, and if Shannon’s life is ever to get on track again, Matthew will need to discover exactly what happened to her–even if it means stirring up a hornet’s nest of secrets.                                                                                                                      Ok so this is a departure from the seat of your pants suspense type of book that this author has been known for in the past so not so much on the adrenaline  rush. It is however a timely and thoughtful book which tackles the topic of healing from trauma. It follows Shannon who has been abducted and has escaped.captivity. The reader walks with her through the days following her re-entry and all that the process entails. It also.follows the man who she has chosen to help her walk through it. Matthew has done this with his daughter and has some idea what she will need. It is  a thoughtful work which produces lots of feels. It features strong yet sensitive characters  who you want to make it through. It took me into a.special.world filled with the dynamic tension of needing to heal while needing also to perform in order to help.apprehend the captors. One thing that stood out to me was that Shannon was written with depth and complexity. She had forged such inner strength and kept the core of who she was, her integrity. She protectlooed others while being held captive and even after.