Best Efforts: What Happens When Good Intentions Aren't Enough? - Paperback

by Susan Staneslow Olesen (Author)

Continuing the adventures of the fractured Kirushenko family from Best Intenions. Home. The one place Sarah never wanted to leave. Even when Father dragged them place to place, home had moved with them. Valeria promised they'd never split up, then promised the split would be just two days long. Dmitri promised a week, tops, but now he's taking Sarah on a never-ending joyride of independence, and the stress is eating Sarah alive. She's not the only one: lightyears away, Vlad, Sergei, and David are just as upset, and their refusal to accept the situation keeps wounds raw. As the weeks turn to months and the months to years, Sarah discovers a new horror: she's growing up, and unimagined dangers are coming to light. As disaster follows disaster, Dmitri pushes farther from home, and Sarah's loneliness is growing with each move. When Dmitri's Someday turns to Never, Sarah's desperation gets the better of her, and she launches a ploy so heinous it will change the course of her life forever... if Dmitri doesn't kill her first. Best Efforts. Everyone tries. Not everyone succeeds.

Author Biography

Susan Staneslow Olesen is a graduate of Chase Collegiate School and studied psychology and writing at Wells College. She is a special-needs foster parent with more than 20 years experience in autism. She has worked all aspects of special education from birth to adult, taught creative writing and beginning Russian language for adult education, spent several years fostering kittens for a local shelter, won several awards for art and costuming, and is a perpetual pest at science-fiction conventions in the Baltimore area. When not writing or intervening, she works as a Tech Assistant for her local public library. In rare spare moments she likes to take her children hiking to the places that inspire her stories. On occasion, she has been known to sleep