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Review – Vicious Cycle

June 1, 2011 By The Suspense Zone

Fifteen year old Lance Covington was just trying to help a school mate. Jordan is a pregnant junkie who ran away from a drug treatment center just before her baby was due. When Lance gets to Jordan’s house, he discovers a wild house. Jordan has just delivered a newborn baby girl and learns that her mother ‘sold’ the baby to a couple for $40,000. Jordan had planned to give the baby up for adoption, but through an agency, so she hides the baby in a car—the car Lance “borrowed” from his sister—hoping Lance will help.

Lance doesn’t know what to do when he finds the baby in the car. He knows it needs help, but is afraid to tell his mother. When his mother gets home from work and learns his secret, she yells at him, but agrees to take the baby to the hospital. But they’re barely out of the driveway when the police arrive and arrest Lance for kidnapping the baby.

Suddenly Lance and his mother, Barbara, find themselves in the midst of the criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. As Barbara struggles to help her son, she must turn to Kent Harland, and they begin the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting the homeless baby, and helping a teenage mother hiding behind lies.

Terri Blackstock is a prolific, best selling author, and VICIOUS CYCLE is the latest spell-binding release by her. I love Ms. Blackstock’s suspense novels and this one was no different.

Terrifyingly realistic, I felt for Lance, a clueless teenage boy, who didn’t know how to handle what was thrown at him, an innocent by-stander. And for Barbara—a woman about my age, who was being asked to handle so much more than she bargained for. If you like suspense, you will love VICIOUS CYCLE.

Vicious Cycle: An Intervention Novel
Vicious Cycle: An Intervention Novel
by Terri Blackstock

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Review – Vicious Cycle
Reviewed by Laura Hilton
Terri Blackstock is a prolific, best selling author, and Vicious Cycle is the latest spell-binding release by her.
Fifteen year old Lance Covington was just trying to help a school mate. Jordan is a pregnant junkie who ran away from a drug treatment center just before her baby was due. When Lance gets to Jordan’s house, he discovers a wild house. Jordan has just delivered a newborn baby girl and learns that her mother ‘sold’ the baby to a couple for $40,000. Jordan had planned to give the baby up for adoption, but through an agency, so she hides the baby in a car—the car Lance “borrowed” from his sister—hoping Lance will help.

Lance doesn’t know what to do when he finds the baby in the car. He knows it needs help, but is afraid to tell his mother. When his mother gets home from work and learns his secret, she yells at him, but agrees to take the baby to the hospital. But they’re barely out of the driveway when the police arrive and arrest Lance for kidnapping the baby.

Suddenly Lance and his mother, Barbara, find themselves in the midst of the criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. As Barbara struggles to help her son, she must turn to Kent Harland, and they begin the impossible work of getting Lance out of trouble, protecting the homeless baby, and helping a teenage mother hiding behind lies.

Terri Blackstock is a prolific, best selling author, and VICIOUS CYCLE is the latest spell-binding release by her. I love Ms. Blackstock’s suspense novels and this one was no different.

Terrifyingly realistic, I felt for Lance, a clueless teenage boy, who didn’t know how to handle what was thrown at him, an innocent by-stander. And for Barbara—a woman about my age, who was being asked to handle so much more than she bargained for. If you like suspense, you will love VICIOUS CYCLE.

 

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Laura Hilton
Laura Hilton, her husband, Steve, and their five children make their home in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas. She is a pastor’s wife, a stay-at-home mom and home-schools her children. Laura is also a breast cancer survivor.
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About Terri Blackstock

Terri Blackstock
About Terri Blackstock*

*Bestselling Author of Double Mind*

Terri Blackstock’s books have sold *six million copies* worldwide. Her
suspense novels often debut at number one on Christian fiction
best-seller lists, and her most recent book, True Light, was number
one of all Christian books?fiction and non-fiction. …

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Recent Books by Terri Blackstock

Aftermath
Release date: 05/11/2021

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Vicious Cycle (An Intervention Novel)
Release date: 06/16/2020

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Intervention (An Intervention Novel)
Release date: 06/16/2020

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Smoke Screen
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If I Run Box Set (If I Run Series)
Release date: 11/06/2018

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If I Live (If I Run Series)
Release date: 03/06/2018

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If I’m Found (If I Run Series)
Release date: 03/21/2017

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If I Run (If I Run Series)
Release date: 02/16/2016

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Twisted Innocence (Moonlighters Series)
Release date: 02/03/2015

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The Sun Coast Chronicles
Release date: 08/26/2014

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Distortion (Moonlighters Series)
Release date: 03/11/2014

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Night Light (Restoration Series #2)
Release date: 09/03/2013

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OUR REVIEWS
Review – Smoke Screen
Review – If I Live
Review – If I’m Found
Review – If I Run
Review – If I Run
Review – If I Run
Review – If I Run
Review – If I Run
Review – if I Run
Review – Breaker’s Reef
Review – Twisted Innocence
Review – Breaker’s Reef
Review – Truth-Stained Lies
Review – Distortion
Review – Distortion
Review – Distortion
Review – Truth-Stained Lies
Review – Truth Stained Lies
Review – Downfall
Review – Predator
Review – Vicious Cycle
Review – Vicious Cycle
Review – Twisted Innocence
INTERVIEWS
January 23, 2009

 

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