Karen’s Books

Sally Jo Benedict leaves her counselor's office the second day of sixth grade armed with an empty journal as her only survival mechanism to start a school year that will prove to be full of remarkable surprises, stimulating mysteries, and irreversible change.

Laurel's mother says they are "different" to explain their lifestyle. She disappears for "work" and claims Laurel's father is dead. But after Laurel overhears a conversation that indicates he is still alive, and finding her mother's hidden room of electronic equipment, Laurel figures her mother lies about everything because she's a spy. A shadowed man appears one night outside her bedroom window and her mother rushes her to safety just before he blows up their house. Five years later, he finds them again. As he tails them with malice on his mind, she and her mother escape "The Evil Lurker's" clutches time and time again. Who is the Evil Lurker and why is he following them? Where is her father? Is her mother a spy? As Laurel continues to sleuth, she uncovers astounding truths that reveal she is close on the path to having all her questions answered and getting rid of the Evil Lurker once and for all!