02266cam a2200289 4500 599072108 TxAuBib 20190912120000.0 190711s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019942559 9781432864699 large print : hbk. : alk. paper 1432864696 large print : hbk. : alk. paper KyBuM KyBuM TxAuBib Roberts, Nora. Under currents [large print] / Nora Roberts. Large print ed. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2019. 671 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. [A]. "Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages--and his mother's complicity--become more and more oppressive, Zane counts the years, months, days until he can escape. He looks out for little Britt, warning her Be smart. Be careful. In fear for his very life, he plays along with the insidious lie that everything is fine, while scribbling his real thoughts in a secret journal he must carefully hide away. When one brutal, shattering night finally reveals cracks in the fa?ade, Zane begins to understand that some people are willing to face the truth, even when it hurts. As he grows into manhood and builds a new kind of family, he will find that while the darkness of his past may always shadow him, it will also show him what is necessary for good to triumph--and give him strength to draw on when he once again must stand up and defend himself and the ones he loves"--Provided by the publisher. 20190912. Family violence Fiction. Adult child abuse victims Fiction. Large type books. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.