The Great Escapee Series

Ex-con. Nobody cares … except a tiny girl named Bea. Clarence Timmelsen was locked up in prison for sixty years. Now he's free in a nursing home. Still imprisoned by his angry heart. He's been set up. Bea's mommy, Katty—brutally abused by a former boyfriend. She follows her family's tradition for living and parenting. Until the boyfriend comes back for their daughter. Did you like The Shack by Wm. Paul Young? Then you might like Released, the first book in The Great Escapee Series, a supernatural suspense series with a touch of magical realism. Buy Released to discover this engaging series today! NYT Bestselling Author Tosca Lee: "A curmudgeonly ex-con senior citizen, a little girl named Bea, and her addict mother. An unlikely trio crosses paths on the road to redemption from their pasts in small town Nebraska--with a little help from above. With true-to-life grit and characters you love to love (and some you love to hate), RELEASED is a fresh slice of hope in a world of injured souls." "It's a battleground, in fact, for the ceaseless clash of good and evil. And as that battle plays out, Lacy unwinds a powerful story of the humanity that resudes in even the most hardened or sickened of souls." ~Review

A pool—sink-hole, really—in small town Nebraska.  It's either a blessing or a curse, depending on the heart of the person who explores it.  Ex-con Clarence and germaphobe Noell, are both being drawn to the pool. Clarence finds a yellowed newspaper article about it, stuck in his old law textbook. Noell stumbles across journals in her vintage camper, documenting pool drownings back in 1937.  Why would she want to explore a creepy pool, when everything she touches opens portals of visions and voices of people who had been there before her? And is that a gift or a curse? Both dive in—or rather, Clarence falls in.  Neither bargain for what they find. Rescued is the second book in The Great Escapee Series. Buy Rescued to continue Clarence's story!

Revealed is the fourth book in The Great Escapee Series, following Released, Rescued, and Restored. All are based in small town America.  Each book centers around an eighty-year-old man named Clarence, who has spent sixty years in prison, only to be kicked out of prison into a nursing home--just another prison. The nursing home is in the town where the crime was committed and where Clarence grew up. He repeatedly escapes from the nursing home to explore the town, but is confronted by his memories--bad and good. He is angry and stubborn--he ain't your white-washed little old man--and just wants to go to the hills and die. Until he meets a little four-year-old girl, named Bea.   That book starts the whole series and each book follows those characters, but adds Noell, a germaphobe who lives with her hoarder, Gamma, and others.   Each book builds on each character's life story. Book four, Revealed, focuses on Bea's mom, Katty. Every book brings hope.   In Revealed:    Katty's evil ex-boyfriend tries to kidnap their daughter, Bea. When druggies from her past want to reconnect—she's their next free lunch. Voices haunt her. "Mommy, Mommy!" But they're not her daughter. A cute cop seems interested in her, but she doesn't deserve that kind of love. Katty reverts to the only comfort she knows—tiny bottles filled with burning, yellow liquid.

Things happen for a reason, right? Like when an old, blind lady reaches out her trembling hand to Katty at the convenience store and tells her, "Find yourself a faithful man—faithful and true." The woman's touch zings Katty's skin. "You'll know when you've found him. He sees you like a queen …." Katty was just there to buy booze.  Angels gather, drawing her. Babies cry out to her. All she knows is abuse and addiction. She has to find herself before she can be loved by a faithful man.  And the only place she can do that is … Gamma's closet.