Stolen Time

STOLEN TIME

By NU NU

NU NU PUBLISHING

Karisse Browne built a life most people could only dream about—success, wealth, a thriving business, a loving daughter, and a husband who appeared to stand beside her through it all.

But some secrets do not disappear simply because enough years have passed.

In 2008, seventeen-year-old Karisse's life was changed by an act of violence that left her facing a pregnancy, a fractured family, and a future she was nowhere near prepared to understand. At eighteen, she made a decision she believed would give her daughter a better life, even though it meant surrendering a part of herself she would never truly recover.

Eighteen years later, Karisse's carefully constructed world begins to crack.

A teenage girl named Tiana enters her daughter's life carrying secrets of her own. What begins as an unexpected friendship slowly exposes a connection to Karisse's buried past. At the same time, Karisse discovers troubling secrets inside her marriage, anonymous threats begin appearing, and a desperate man facing a dangerous debt starts looking toward the family for a way out.

As the past collides with the present, Karisse realizes that the years she thought were behind her have never really been gone.

They were stolen.

Now she must confront the truth about the daughter she gave away, the people who betrayed her, the husband she trusted, and the man determined to make history repeat itself.

Because some wounds can heal without disappearing.

Some secrets can survive eighteen years.

And sometimes, reclaiming your stolen time means finally facing everything that took it from you.

STOLEN TIME is a psychological family thriller about secrets, survival, motherhood, betrayal, trauma, accountability, and the complicated journey of reclaiming a life that was never supposed to belong to anyone else.