Instinct

She needed the job. She ignored the feeling.



Worn down by the loss of her husband and bills she can’t keep up with, Cynthia agrees to homeschool two teenage girls. One is a sweetheart. The other is quiet. Too quiet.



At first, she blames her unease on nerves, on guilt, on the pressure of raising her young daughter alone. But something about the second girl isn’t right. The way she watches. The stories that don’t add up. The way even the dog keeps his distance.



Then a man from the past reappears—someone with ties to terrible things. And suddenly, Cynthia’s fragile home doesn’t feel safe anymore.



Her instincts are screaming. But if she’s wrong, she could ruin a child’s life. If she’s right, her daughter’s safety may already be slipping through her fingers.



Instinct is a taut psychological thriller in the When Bad Things Happen series—gripping, emotional stories about ordinary women caught in extraordinary, often harrowing turns of fate.



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★★★★★ “This story grabbed me and wouldn't let go... it kept me up way too late many nights because I couldn't put it down.”



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★★★★★ “It was a believable plot with the main character so well defined it was like you knew her.”

Dr. Sharon A. Mitchell lives on a farm, with her nearest neighbor several miles away. Doesn't that seem like the ideal setting to spark the imagination? She takes long walks with her hundred-pound German Shepherd dogs, Pickles and Dill. (She didn't name them - don't blame her). The Farmers of Goodrich County is a series of clean and wholesome romances set in a western small town, farming region. She's working on her eighth psychological thriller novel for the When Bad Things Happen series. Besides two, three short stories tied to that series, and bonus material at the end of many of the books, she's written six novels, each featuring an autistic child or young adult. Two nonfiction books accompany that autism series. Sharon's been a teacher, counselor, psychologist and consultant for decades and continues to teach university classes to soon-to-be teachers and administrators.