Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here Bound by blood...Marked by the Dragonfly. (Age 17+ due to language/graphic content... a dark but beautiful story of abuse and survival.) The pasts of three sisters and their mother collide head-on with a mysterious present in this surreal and gripping family drama. One of these women finds herself trapped. Alone. In a box. She battles to survive the terrifying darkness. With long hours of nothing to do but wait in terror for her captor to return, she grapples through obscure dreams and memories of a painful family past, painting the story of the dragonfly tattoo—once meant to be a beautiful, family mark of freedom—but destined to become a prophetic brand of survival shared by the four women who wear it. Identical twins, Gabby and Olivia, and their little sister, Emma, flee their less-than-perfect childhoods, and find they take more of their mother with them than her long chocolate-colored hair and her startling blue eyes. Wanting to just get away... Olivia marries her first love—at age 17—and realizes later he's not what he'd first seemed to be. She falls victim to his fury when his mask finally slips, and she attempts to break free. But she finds herself unwillingly flittering back to a familiar cycle of abuse—one she'd watched her own parents circle for years. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Gabby, finds sweet love with Jake, a humble, well-mannered southern boy who saves her not once—but twice. However, when she is pursued by a dangerous admirer at work, her happily-ever-after is threatened and may come to an end far too soon. And there's little sister, Emma... with her own hidden secrets, painfully bottled up inside of her, wrestling to get out and take revenge. Deeply evocative, Let Me Go is a suspenseful and heart-wrenching Coming of Age story with a beautiful ending for survivors. H.M. Ward, #1 Bestselling New Adult author in the world, describes the New Adult genre (and it definitely applies to Let Me Go): "New Adult isn't about age, although the characters tend to be early 20's. Themes tend to revolve around getting acquainted with life, addressing darker subject matters. It's not about sex, either. It's about getting the rose-colored glasses of childhood bitchslapped off your face by the phenomenon known as life." Look for Captured Again, and Find Me, Keep Me, Books 2 & 3 of The Let Me Go Series.

Previously released as "Let Me Go" under the name L.L. Akers. Bound by blood...Marked by the Dragonfly. The pasts of three sisters and their mother collide head-on with a mysterious present in this surreal and gripping family drama. One of these women finds herself trapped. Alone. In a box. She battles to survive the terrifying darkness. With long hours of nothing to do but wait in terror for her captor to return, she grapples through obscure dreams and memories of a painful family past, painting the story of the dragonfly tattoo—once meant to be a beautiful, family mark of freedom—but destined to become a prophetic brand of survival shared by the four women who wear it. Identical twins, Gabby and Olivia, and their little sister, Emma, flee their less-than-perfect childhoods, and find they take more of their mother with them than her long chocolate-colored hair and her startling blue eyes. Wanting to just get away... Olivia marries her first love—at age 17—and realizes later he's not what he'd first seemed to be. She falls victim to his fury when his mask finally slips, and she attempts to break free. But she finds herself unwillingly flittering back to a familiar cycle of abuse—one she'd watched her own parents circle for years. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Gabby, finds sweet love with Jake, a humble, well-mannered southern boy who saves her not once—but twice. However, when she is pursued by a dangerous admirer at work, her happily-ever-after is threatened and may come to an end far too soon. And there's little sister, Emma... with her own hidden secrets, painfully bottled up inside of her, wrestling to get out and take revenge. Deeply evocative, Let Me Go is a suspenseful and heart-wrenching Coming of Age story with a beautiful ending for survivors. (Age 17+ due to language/graphic content... a dark but beautiful story of abuse and survival.)

Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here Turn another page in Book 2 of The Let Me Go Trilogy with Captured Again, another Stand-Alone. Ink doesn't fade, but bad memories do. Gabby, Olivia and Emma have stumbled through the ashes of their past. They've happily moved on when disaster strikes again, and one heart breaks when another stops beating—forever. Olivia must help her twin sister, Gabby, keep her tentative grip on reality when the happily ever after she and Jake fought so hard for is threatened. And Emma's all grown up these days. Now that she's a junior in college, she's determined to hide her old ink and write a new story. Anyone who remembers that girl she used to be is where they belong—in her past. However, after a rough night, she's detoured by Dusty... he's almost too good to be true. He's hot. He's sexy. But the smoldering gray eyes don't hide the fact he's not Emma's typical bad boy. He's a cop. One who's always colored between the lines—until the day he arrests Emma, the troubled girl from long-ago with the dragonfly tattoo. But she's not a girl anymore. Dusty falls hard for her fiery blue eyes and spitfire personality. For her, he's willing to risk getting burnt. In hot pursuit of Emma, Dusty enters a dangerous game of hide and seek. Emma's stubbornness and refusal to surrender may just get one of them killed, before he's able to capture her heart. Fiction: New Adult, Romantic Suspense. Age 17+

A Gripping Psychological Romantic Suspense Novel Book 3 of The Let Me Go Series: Olivia has a new job; one that unknowingly lands her right smack dab in the middle of a dark, depraved world of prostitution and sex-trafficking. And to make matters worse, she's finally found someone. She thinks he's everything she wants, but he's strictly an online friend. While he tries to remain hidden behind his avatar, she's at last ready to put her rocky past behind her, if she can convince him to step out from behind the curtain. But when she invites her anonymous friend to her sister's wedding on the beautiful, beachy, sub-tropical haven of Bald Head Island, he says no; he's not yet ready to reveal his true identity. Instead, along with an unexpected squall that blows in, Grayson—the mysterious brother of the groom—arrives. Olivia is rightfully wary of Grayson. He's a dangerous, real, flesh and blood man, after all. So, when her own heart beats out a warning tempo, she takes heed. Danger finds her anyway, as the beach is slammed with murderous hurricane winds, and the two are thrust together. All is not as it seems, and she must dig deep if she is to unmask the mystery of the man, and save herself, by forcing him to confront his own inner storms and secrets, while he battles his two biggest demons: revenge and redemption. Fiction: Romantic Suspense, Psychological Suspense, Family Saga Trigger Warnings: abduction, vague references to prostitution and sex trafficking, violence to women