She spends much of her time in a research lab when she’s not teaching, trying to create a program that will help protect children from school shooters and act as a stopgap between on-site prevention (i.e armed guards) and crisis management. She responded to this personal disaster by becoming a psychology professor and by stuffing her life with bright, energy-spending activities. Her sister Nia was one of victims of the Long Acre High School shooting fourteen years earlier, and Taryn suffered with survivor’s guilt ever since. Taryn Landry has been fighting a war with her own guilt for years. Considering the nature of the subject matter, this is unlikely to be a romance for everyone, and definitely won’t be a comfortable subject for every reader – but for me it was a well done combination of love story and everyday storytelling that was wonderful to read.ĭr. Roni Loren’s The Ones Who Got Away series brings romance into a decidedly unromantic story – the lives of a group of friends who survived a Columbine-like high school shooting.
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