The Marsh King's daughter
(Book)

"A novel" -- Cover.

"At last, Helena has the normal life she craved: a loving husband, two adorable daughters, a business that pays the bills. But when her father escapes from a nearby prison, she realizes she was a fool to think she could put her dark past behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by Helena's father and held captive in a cabin surrounded by swamp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Helena was born two years later, and as she grew up she had no idea that anything was wrong. She loved her rugged childhood, and despite her father's sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too--until she learned precisely how monstrous he could be. Now a young mother, Helena has hidden her past so thoroughly that even her husband has no idea of the truth. But after her father kills two prison guards and vanishes into the marshland he knows better than anyone, Helena knows the police don't stand a chance of finding him. Only one person has the skills to catch the notorious child abductor and survivalist the world calls the Marsh King, because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter. Unless, that is, he finds her first." -- From dust jacket.