
Out of the Ashes
A Novel
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Jordan Cobb
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Kara Thomas
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A woman’s investigation into her family’s murders uncovers lies, secrets, and dangerous truths in a heart-wrenching novel of suspense.
When she was thirteen years old, Samantha Newsom’s family was murdered and their Catskills farmhouse set ablaze in an unsolved crime that left nothing behind but ashes.
Twenty-two years later, Sam is pulled back to her hometown of Carney, New York, under the shadows of the grim tragedy she’s never forgotten or forgiven. Authorities mishandled the evidence, false rumors were seeded about her family, suspects yielded nothing, and the case went cold. Not anymore. Investigator Travis Meacham has been assigned to the case, and he has news for Sam: a prison inmate has come forward with a shocking admission. Sam’s baby sister, presumed dead in the fire, made it out of the house that night.
It’s not the only reveal that upends everything Sam thinks she knows about the crime and her family. But Carney protects its secrets. And this time, Sam might not be able to escape the town alive.
©2023 Kara Thomas (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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“This elegant suspense yarn from YA author Thomas dodges expectations at every turn…and the enthralling plot delivers a steady stream of surprises. Thomas’s first foray into adult fiction is a thrilling success.”—Publishers Weekly
“This story simply engulfed me. I didn’t trust a single seedy character that Samantha Newsom came in contact with while on her quest to unearth, after twenty-two years, who was responsible for murdering her entire family and setting their Catskills farmhouse aflame. Out of the Ashes is gritty, raw, and chock-full of tension as suffocating as the tiny town of Carney itself.”—Stacy Willingham, New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark
“A masterful, smart, slow-burning suspense. Out of the Ashes drew me in with its sinister secrets and wouldn’t let me go until the very last page.”—Elle Cosimano, USA Today bestselling author of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
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Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life. A life with a stepbrother, a stepmother, and, strangest of all, an adoring younger half sister. Kacey's new life is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one she lived with her volatile mother. And everyone is so nice in Broken Falls - she's even been welcomed into a tight new circle of friends. Bailey and Jade invite her to do everything with them.
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Superb!
- By LoCFo22 on 08-03-17
By: Kara Thomas
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The Bitter Truth
- By: Shanora Williams
- Narrated by: Sable Lyn, Roderick Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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For Jolene “Jo” Baker, the least she can do for her adoring husband, Dominic, is give unwavering support for his North Carolina gubernatorial run. He is not only the love of her life, he's also helping her prove that she's far more than just a pampered trophy wife. With huge crowds showing up at Dominic’s speeches and the polls consistently in his favor, she's never been happier to stand proudly by his side... Until she and Dominic start seeing the same, strangely ominous woman turning up all along the campaign trail.
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Love a Good Thriller!
- By Kaira on 06-27-24
By: Shanora Williams
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Hurt for Me
- By: Heather Levy
- Narrated by: Ava Lucas
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she’s running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae’s finally in control—literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City’s elite in her private dungeon, which is fronted by a spa. But when a client goes missing, Rae’s world spins out of control.
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Hooked from the start!
- By tessjones3 on 03-13-24
By: Heather Levy
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Don't Forget Me
- A Thriller
- By: Rea Frey
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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All Ruby wanted was a fresh start. But after an early retirement and a relocation to a tight-knit community with her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Lily, her new beginning takes a turn. First her troubled daughter and then her husband disappear without a trace. Unsure how to cope, grief-ridden Ruby turns to her neighborhood friends to find a way forward with new hobbies, including a murder club where they try to solve cold cases. But just as unexpectedly as her family vanished, a body floats to the surface of the nearby lake.
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I Will Forget This Book
- By JoJo on 04-05-24
By: Rea Frey
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The Hook
- A Novel
- By: Victoria Helen Stone
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Jordan Cobb, Victoria Villarreal, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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A women’s boxing class is the perfect place for betrayed wife Katherine to work out her aggressions. Ideal too for Geneva, a teacher disgraced and ruined by a vengeful ex, and Luz, a software engineer battling an unjust system. Maggie, their instructor and mentor, guarantees she can right the wrongs they’ve endured. And if Katherine, Geneva, and Luz really want to unleash their rage, they must do what Maggie says.
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Disappointing political agendas
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-23
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Come Home, Katie: A Dear Celeste Novel
- Dear Celeste, Book 1
- By: J.R. Erickson
- Narrated by: Robyn Maryke
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A terrible hit and run accident took Celeste Cleary's life until doctors managed to bring her back. But now she's... different. Once a respected scientist, she walks the thin veil between the living and the dead. As she struggles to return to her former life, Celeste receives an email-a heart-wrenching letter from a stranger, a woman begging for help locating her seventeen-year-old sister, Katie, who vanished a year before.
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WOW
- By NicoleAnn08 on 07-23-24
By: J.R. Erickson
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Dark Web
- By: T. J. Brearton
- Narrated by: Liam DiCosimo
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike and Callie Simpkins moved north to restart their lives and get their finances back on track. Their son Braxton immerses himself in an online game-world of crime and gangs. When he decides to meet some of the players in the real world, tragedy strikes. Detective John Swift must untangle a web of virtual and real crimes in order to solve this complex mystery. And as the family copes with unimaginable grief, even Braxton’s stepfather, Mike, comes under suspicion.
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5 STARS for The Dark Web
- By shelley on 11-18-22
By: T. J. Brearton
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Safe
- A Novel
- By: S. K. Barnett
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after escaping her kidnappers - but as her parents and older brother welcome her back, the questions begin to mount. Where has she been all these years? Why is she back now? And is home really the safest place for her...or for any of them?
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It's SAFE To Say that SAFE Is A Wasted Credit!
- By MA Reviewer on 06-27-20
By: S. K. Barnett
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The Neighborhood
- By: Matthew Betley
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Welcome to Hidden Refuge, a normal American subdivision full of normal American suburbanites. At least that’s what the citizens thought before men impersonating police officers show up on their doorsteps in the middle of the night. Once the entire community is under siege, so begins a long, dark night that will prove to be anything but ordinary. But Zack Chambers, suburban family man and programmer by trade, has his own secret. The deadly ex-CIA agent and trained operative plots to take back the night, doing whatever it takes to protect his neighborhood.
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A bit so Gated, Gated Community.
- By JenFox on 08-11-22
By: Matthew Betley
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Falling Home
- A Falling Home Novel
- By: Karen White
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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At 20, Cassie Madison left her hometown of Walton, Georgia, for New York City, where she has reinvented herself - from losing herself in her career to squashing her accent. But one night a single phone call brings back everything she's tried to forget. She hasn't spoken to her sister since Harriet stole Cassie's fiancé and married him. But now Harriet's on the line with news that their father is dying. As she makes the trip back, the only thing that frightens Cassie more than losing her father is seeing Harriet and the family that should have been hers.
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Another great book by Karen White
- By Kindle Customer on 02-01-21
By: Karen White
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Red Warning
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Quirk
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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For years CIA officer Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep cover operative responsible for a string of assassinations in the West—and he believes a well-placed source in Geneva can finally get him close to the killer. But when their meeting is ambushed, Sam’s partner is murdered and he barely makes it out alive himself. Back in the States, the bosses put him on leave and want him to drop his obsession with Konstantin, but Sam can’t let a man who’s taken so many lives slip away again.
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- By elsa fischer on 11-30-24
By: Matthew Quirk
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Lies He Told Me
- A Thriller
- By: James Patterson, David Ellis
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker, Corey Carthew
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practices family law. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he’s celebrated as a hero. His muscled physique, shaved head, and piercing blue eyes are broadcast on every news outlet. For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline. For David Bowers, it’s a death sentence. For Marcie Bowers, it’s a test.
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Good Story
- By Amazon Customer on 10-16-24
By: James Patterson, and others
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- Pink Amy
- 05-10-23
Compelling
4.5 STARS
I’m a huge Kara Thomas fan and was excited to see how her adult debut would compare to her YA novels. She did not disappoint.
Samantha’s life has be marred by tragedy, from the murders of her parents and sister, to the subsequent fire to a loveless life after their deaths with her cold aunt. When her mother’s foster brother asks for Sam’s assistance in expediting his impending death, she agrees bringing her back to the small town of her childhood. Now in her thirties, Sam learns all she didn’t known about her family’s deaths and starts to ask questions, questions that may kill her.
Thomas is a master at creating complex, detailed characters who are flawed yet often sympathetic. I love her writing style, work building and plot. Though OUT OF THE ASHES dragged a little in the beginning, it quickly became unputdownable so I rounded up to 5 stars.
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- Jennifer Criteser
- 10-25-23
This story pulled me along the whole way!!!
This book was recommended to me and I couldn’t be more satisfied. I was engaged the for the whole entire book. The narrator did a great job.
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- Kristin
- 05-11-23
Gripping!
This is a full throttle book! Loved it! My only complaint is that the side characters felt under developed. I had a hard time deciphering them from one another at times.
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- Todd bryant
- 06-17-23
Not as good as I thought
I was somewhat confused during the book as to why an out of the blue character was in this book I did however like the ending
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- Astrid Dahl
- 09-01-23
A bit convoluted
Too much of- he said- she said- then I said- for my liking. I found I was lost half way through!
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- AJ Holmes
- 05-05-23
YOU'LL DEVOUR IN ONE SITTING!!!
Wow! There's a lot going on in Carney, NY, as Samantha soon learns. Just being in town is triggering for Samantha, but after learning her sister, who was presumed dead from the murder of her family and subsequent fire set to the house their lifeless bodies lay in 22 years prior, may have survived, Samantha wants answers as she makes to find her sister. Sometimes, however, not having all the answers may prove to be less painful.
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- shelley
- 05-03-23
Outstanding Debut Novel!!!!
Samantha Newson (the protagonist) is an RN working at a hospital in Queens, NY. In the very beginning of the story she steals morphine from a patient who is on the verge of dying. She’s supposed to have the next three days off. She drives to upstate NY where her mother’s foster brother is also dying from stage four lung cancer. She administers the lethal dose, waits for him to die and returns home to wait for the notification call.
The next day she returns to clean up his house to sell. While there a NY State police officer shows up to talk to her uncle about her family’s murder 20 years earlier. She wasn’t home the night both her parents and baby sister were killed and their home set ablaze. Now there’s evidence that the baby may have actually been taken and not killed.
I personally felt the characters were very engaging. I really liked Samantha. She’s an underdog that I couldn’t help but pull for and hope that eventually everything would work out in her favor. I thought the story was believable and the plot was plausible. I will be on the lookout for future books from this author.
Jordan Cobb does an OUTSTANDING job narrating.
This book has my VERY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!!
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- Punkin Ruth
- 05-24-23
Lovely book
Not really a thriller or at least not my typical thriller. More of a mystery but I did really enjoy it.
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- Ken Lewis
- 06-11-23
There is a good story in their somewhere
but if you’re prone to depression I’d steer clear of this book. There wasn’t a likable or upright character in the entire book. It was populated by emotionally ruined people. There was no beauty even hinted at in the protagonist’s or anyone else’s life story. The main theme was of women seeking the truth about a sordid and tragic upbringing and family murders. I nearly stopped listening a few times. When I got to the end I wish I had stopped.
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- Ms. Link
- 05-08-24
twists and turns
I lived how the story took so many twists and turns, just when I thought I figured it out. I highly recommend that you pay attention especially if you're listening to this because I think I need to listen again and could easily do so even though I know how it ends.
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