Stories that explore what tragedy leaves behind, and the courage it takes to find acceptance, forgiveness, and meaning.
Susan Leon
— Author of If They’d Only Known
A child missing. A family fractured. Truths buried in time.
COMING SOON
One moment, she was there. A laughing, living, eight-year-old girl. The next, she was gone.
Twenty years of not knowing.
A father destroyed by believing she’s dead.
A mother refuses to let go of hope she's alive.
One brother carries the crushing guilt of not being there when he should have been.
The other a traumatized witness.
A sister who thinks distance will make it all go away.
If They’d Only Known is a cold case family drama about the damage left behind when a child vanishes, and the devastating power of denial, grief, and secrets.
A haunting, emotionally precise literary exploration about what comes after.
“Just finished If They’d Only Known. Wow, well done. I'm no critic, though having lived through the era depicted in the book, and having similar experiences, I went from teary eyes to chuckles and from long hidden memories to the hard facts of life.”
— Jim G., Vietnam Veteran
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Susan Leon
I am a Canadian crime writer with a lifelong curiosity about human behavior, trauma, and resilience.
In my debut novel, If They'd Only Known, I delve into the aftermath of loss by drawing on my rich personal experiences to explore both the shadow and light in people's lives.