Secret Place

When desperation leads to homicide, can healing, freedom—and the faith—be found?

A Sunday school teacher hides a dark secret. Charisma Joel’s family has been plagued by mental illness for years, leaving her in denial and too ashamed to get help. Desperate and angry with God, she turns to cocky, womanizing Dr. Miles Logan for solace. When a homicide occurs and more dark secrets are exposed, Charisma is left to wonder if she will ever find the relief and freedom she desires for herself and her family.

Secret Place reveals the devastation mental illness can cause within families, while offering solid hope and inspiration along the way.

Leslie J. Sherrod, the recipient of the SORMAG Readers Choice Award for Christian Author of the Year (2012), has a master’s degree in social work and has worked as a therapist. Her novels, Losing Hope, Secret Place, and Like Sheep Gone Astray have been featured in Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library Writer’s LIVE! Series, as well as local CBS and NBC affiliates, and on AOL’s Black Voices. She has received a starred review from Booklist and is a contributor to the bestselling A Cup of Comfort devotional series. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout her undergraduate and graduate college career and also took courses in writing at Johns Hopkins University. Leslie lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband and three children.