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The Hiding Girl Wins 2021 IndieReader Discovery Award
Thrilled to receive the announcement that The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1) placed second overall in the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Awards in Fiction. Here's the "verdict": Not an ordinary coming-of-age tale, THE HIDING GIRL (book 1 in the Emily Calby series)...
The Hiding Girl Named Finalist in National Indie Excellence Awards
It's been a good month for Emily and The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1), which was just named a Finalist in Suspense in the 15th annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Just got the word: It is our great pleasure to inform you that you are a Finalist in the 15th...
Amazing “Fan Art” of The Hiding Girl
So cool to come across this amazing Illustrated Journaling artwork on Goodreads of my book, The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1), penned by Niki McNeil: Love it! From the pictures—Emily’s neck knife, her fake driver’s license, Lucas’s Mr. Good Lookin’ is Cookin’...
BestThrillers.com Reviews The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby Book 2)
"Groundbreaking." "Nail-biting." "Wondrous." Have to love any review of one's book that uses those adjectives in opining on the book's "bottom line." BestThrillers.com just posted its full review of The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby Book 2). The Girl in Cell 49B...
The Girl in Cell 49B Named a Best Reviewed Book of the Month by IndieReader
Dorian Box's The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby Book 2) was just named a "Best Reviewed Book of the Month" by IndieReader. Both the Kindle and Paperback will be released on March 1. Hope you'll check it out! In the meantime, here's the full IndieReader review....
The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1)
Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a religious family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Somehow Emily escaped. Only the killers know she survived. On the run in a fugue, she makes an unlikely ally in a ruthless former gang member who takes her in. Overwhelmed by guilt, she persuades him to train her to kill before setting out alone on a terrifying search for justice. Nothing will stop her—not cops or creeps, not even her own splintering mind. Through it all, Emily fights to hold onto hope and the girl she once knew, kept buried deep inside. A testament to the boundless limits of love, sacrifice and the will to survive, The Hiding Girl is the first book in the multi-award-winning Emily Calby Series.