What follows is a wonderful and intense story, as we watch Cate grow and become stronger, even when she starts receiving scary phone calls as her ordeal is not over. When Cate’s mother, an actress, is released from jail, Cate avoids her like the plague, as she hates her mother who would do anything to get publicity, including using the media to fake plead apologies to her daughter.

She also keeps contact with the family that helped her years before, and to her surprise, the young boy who helped her, Dillon, turns into a hot young man. She will spend a few years in Ireland with her grandmother, with visits from her father and grandfather.Īt 18, she resumes her acting career, and the story revolves around Cate trying to cope with the past, and finding a way move on. Everything changes for Cate, as her mother and two others are sent to jail. When the police come, they suspect an inside job, and Cate reveals that her mother was the one who told her where to hide during a hide and seek game, and when she was locked up, she heard the man talking on the phone and recognized her mother’s voice. After being terrorized, she manages to escape, and ends up at a local ranch who protects her and brings her safely home. The story begins with a bang, as child star, 10-year-old, Caitlyn Sullivan (Cate), gets kidnapped during a family celebration in Big Sur. The story revolves around the Sullivan’s, a famous Hollywood family, with the oldest member, a film legend, having recently died at the age of 92, and many of his children/grandchildren are also Hollywood royalty. Hideaway by Nora Roberts is another one of her wonderful standalone novels. What she didn’t yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night-one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance… Then, finally, she returned to Los Angeles, hoping to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. Then there were years away in Ireland, sheltered and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul.

First came the discovery of a betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bruised and terrified girl huddled in his ranch house kitchen-but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge and comfort, reuniting her with her loved ones.Ĭate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. It was during one of those games that she disappeared.ĭespite her glamorous background, Cate was a shrewd, scrappy survivor, and she managed to escape her abductors. Amazon / B&N / Kobo / Google Play / Apple / BAM / Book DepositoryĬaitlyn Sullivan, a daughter of Hollywood royalty, was already a star at ten, but still loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur.