Bøker av Kate Mclaughlin

"Raw, unflinching, and authentic, Kate McLaughlin's thoughtful What Unbreakable Looks Like carefully crafts a story exposing the vulnerability of underage trafficked girls and what it takes to begin the process of healing from sexual trauma."-Christa Desir, author, advocate, and founding member of The Voices and Faces ProjectLex was taken-trafficked-and now she's Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is a distant memory. But when the girls are rescued, she doesn't quite know how to be Lex again. After she moves in with her aunt and uncle, for the first time in a long time, she knows what it is to feel truly safe. Except, she doesn't trust it. Doesn't trust her new home. Doesn't trust her new friend. Doesn't trust her new life. Instead she trusts what she shouldn't because that's what feels right. She doesn't deserve good things. But when she is sexually assaulted by her so-called boyfriend and his friends, Lex is forced to reckon with what happened to her and that just because she is used to it, doesn't mean it is okay. She's thrust into the limelight and realizes she has the power to help others. But first she'll have to confront the monsters of her past with the help of her family, friends, and a new love.Kate McLaughlin's What Unbreakable Looks Like is a gritty, ultimately hopeful novel about human trafficking through the lens of a girl who has escaped the life and learned to trust, not only others, but in herself.

The next gut-punching, compulsively readable Kate McLaughlin novel, about a girl finding strength in not being alone.When eighteen-year-old Dylan wakes up, she's in an apartment she doesn't recognize. The other people there seem to know her, but she doesn't know them - not even the pretty, chiseled boy who tells her his name is Connor. A voice inside her head keeps saying that everything is okay, but Dylan can't help but freak out. Especially when she borrows Connor's phone to call home and realizes she's been missing for three days.Dylan has lost time before, but never like this.Soon after, Dylan is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and must grapple not only with the many people currently crammed inside her head, but that a secret from her past so terrible she's blocked it out has put them there. Her only distraction is a budding new relationship with Connor. But as she gets closer to finding out the truth, Dylan wonders: will it heal her or fracture her further?Kate McLaughlin's Pieces of Me is raw, intimate, and surprisingly hopeful."Pieces of Me is a chilling, yet empathetic, look into Dissociative Identity Disorder. With her calm, pure, voice, Kate McLaughlin delves deep into the crevices of this misunderstood disorder and a young woman's mind. I had to keep reading not only to understand Dylan, the main character-but to understand all of the people inside Dylan's head." - Hayley Krischer, author of Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf and The Falling Girls

Kate McLaughlin's Daughter is a young adult novel about trying to right deadly choices that were never yours to begin with.Scarlet's life is pretty average. Overly protective mom. Great friends. Cute boy she's interested in. And a father she's never known - until she does.When the FBI show up at Scarlet's door, she is shocked to learn her father is infamous serial killer Jeffrey Robert Lake. And now, he's dying and will only give the names and locations of his remaining victims to the one person, the daughter he hasn't seen since she was a baby.Scarlet's mother has tried to protect her from Lake's horrifying legacy, but there's no way they can escape the media firestorm that erupts when they come out of hiding. Or the people who blame Scarlet for her father's choices. When trying to do the right thing puts her life in danger, Scarlet is faced with a choice - go back into hiding or make the world see her as more than a monster's daughter.

Madge and Paul Franklin are full-time RVers. They often work as volunteers with different organizations, as well as occasionally being called on by a semi-government organization to work in clandestine operations.Join the Franklins on their second travel/mystery adventure as they shepherd friends from France down the Skyline Drive to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Enjoy the sights along the way and share Madge’s frustration as hikers keep disappearing off the Appalachian Trail.When a disaster occurs in a small town in rural Virginia, Madge finds herself embroiled in more than simply solving the mystery of the disappearing hikers. Ride along as Madge attempts to stop the bad guys from wreaking havoc at local celebrations, and in the process, finds the answer to those disappearing hikers.Kate McLaughlin and her husband spent sixteen years on the road as full-time RVers. During that time, they worked as volunteers with the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and as volunteers doing disaster rebuilds and service projects. Her first book, Fast Food Kills, a Madge Franklin Mystery, began her foray into the travel/mystery genre. The book was an Honorable Mention winner at the 2016 New York Book Festival, and was so well received, she is continuing the adventure series. “The area covered in Cold Case is one of my favorites and I simply wanted to share it with my readers.” She and her husband now live in New Mexico.Publisher’s website: http://sbprabooks.com/KateMcLaughlin 

Madge and Paul Franklin enjoy being retired. They also enjoy living full-time in their recreational vehicle and having adventures as they travel across America.The couple has been on the road as full-time RVers for over 6 years. Sometimes they travel as simple tourists, but often they work as volunteers with different organizations.Recruited by a semi-official government organization to work in clandestine operations, the Franklins find themselves RVing throughout the Southwest tracking a "mad" scientist suspected of killing people in fast food restaurants.The Franklin's investigation takes them from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico to Virginia, back to New Mexico, and then to Death Valley National Park, where the murder mystery reaches its climax. Who is killing these fast food diners ... if it's not the calorie-laden food?Kate McLaughlin wanted to create a fictional couple who could tell her and her husband's story. Somehow the book took on a life of its own and Fast Food Kills is the result. "My husband and I are retired and live on a retirement style income. We live full-time in an RV and travel all over the country. When not visiting the kids, we work as volunteers with the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. We also do service projects and disaster rebuilds with NOMADS, which is a branch of the United Methodist Church." About her writing, she says, "I had recently turned 70 and thought if Grandma Moses could start that late in life, so could I."