When Bad Things Happen

Series · 3 books · 2021

By Sharon A. Mitchell

Books in series

Gone

2021

A sheltered mother. A medically fragile child. They can’t just disappear. Or can they? A typical day of medical appointments and errands. Elizabeth can handle it, she tells herself. She’ll do it all until her husband returns on the weekend. But someone else has a plan – several someones, throwing Elizabeth’s orderly life into chaos and danger. Now, she’s on her own. Neither her parents nor her husband is there to protect her. No one knows where they are. If her son is to get out of this alive, it’s up to Elizabeth. Ordinary people, thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Read Gone, Book One of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen.

Trust

2021

Elizabeth thought that after all they'd been through, the bad parts were over. Guess not. After saving herself and her little boy from abductors, Elizabeth yearns to put the terror behind them, to cocoon with her son, safe and secure at home. Court hearings confirm that they suffered the worst betrayal possible. She never dreamed that she'd have to battle the law to protect her medically fragile little boy when his life and sanity are on the line. When her son is targeted and taken, Elizabeth will do anything to save him. Ordinary people, thrust into extraordinary circumstances.

Selfish

2021

A child wanders the courthouse hallways alone. She doesn’t speak. No one knows who she is. Anna, the always giving, always caring court social worker agrees to foster the young girl. But danger lurks in Anna’s past. Just when she thinks that all her striving has finally brought her the life she sought, the past launches itself at her and those she’s come to love. Yet other forces are after the child. With lives and freedom on the line, can Anna shake the bonds on the past and stand up for those who mean the world to her? Read SELFISH: A Psychological Thriller, Book 3 in the series When Bad Things Happen.

Author

Sharon A. Mitchell

Author · 7 books

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). Her newest work are clean, contemporary, western romances in The Farmers of Goodrich County series. She's working on her eighth psychological thriller novel for the When Bad Things Happen series. Besidestfive short stories tied to that series, 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. Dr. Sharon A. Mitchell is author of the psychological thriller series When Bad Things Happen: ·GONE ·TRUST ·SELFISH

INSTINCT -REASONS WHY -MINE -SANCTUM ·YOUNG ANNA (a short story) ·Anything for Her Son (prequel short story) Western Romances:
The Farmer Takes a Wife -The Farmer Says I Do
The Farmer's Christmas Duty
In Case of Rain She's also written a series of six novels, each featuring a child or young adult on the autism spectrum: ·Autism Goes to School ·Autism Runs Away ·Autism Belongs ·Autism Talks and Talks ·Autism Grows Up ·Autism Goes to College ·Autism Box Set- Books 1-3 In addition, there are two nonfiction books: ·Autism Questions Parents Ask & the Answers They Seek ·Autism Questions Teachers Ask & the Answers They Seek