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Sandy, Breaking the Pattern
From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!
“I love my Da.”
Raised to a life of crime, Sandy is a teenage prostitute, junkie, and con artist. She always joked that her Da taught her a trade, that it hadn’t hurt her to be brought up like she was.
But things keep getting more complicated, more dangerous, and Sandy doesn’t want to admit even to herself that she longs for an honest, normal life.
Even when she tries to change, things don’t go smoothly. Sandy’s past keeps interfering with her new relationships. In the end, if she and her family don’t pull together, Sandy will not be able to escape yet another ghost of her past. Do they have what it takes for her to change her life completely?
By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016, Sandy’s hope for a better life will touch your heart and keep you rooting for her right to the end.
If you enjoy gritty contemporary young adult books like those by John Green and Stephen Chbosky, give P.D. Workman’s Breaking the Pattern series a try.
Start your journey with Sandy today!
“I love my Da.”
Raised to a life of crime, Sandy is a teenage prostitute, junkie, and con artist. She always joked that her Da taught her a trade, that it hadn’t hurt her to be brought up like she was.
But things keep getting more complicated, more dangerous, and Sandy doesn’t want to admit even to herself that she longs for an honest, normal life.
Even when she tries to change, things don’t go smoothly. Sandy’s past keeps interfering with her new relationships. In the end, if she and her family don’t pull together, Sandy will not be able to escape yet another ghost of her past. Do they have what it takes for her to change her life completely?
By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016, Sandy’s hope for a better life will touch your heart and keep you rooting for her right to the end.
If you enjoy gritty contemporary young adult books like those by John Green and Stephen Chbosky, give P.D. Workman’s Breaking the Pattern series a try.
Start your journey with Sandy today!
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Published February 4, 2022
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P.D. Workman
250 books496 followersAward-winning Canadian author P.D. Workman has written over a hundred addictive page-turners featuring diverse and divergent sleuths, high-stakes investigations, and stories that linger long after the last page. Her books dive deep into characters’ minds while exploring timely social issues through fast-paced, emotionally charged plots. Readers praise her work for its powerful emotional truth combined with unputdownable suspense.
Shunning sleep, when Workman is not writing, formatting, or marketing, she’s probably running, reading, or spending time with her family.
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Shunning sleep, when Workman is not writing, formatting, or marketing, she’s probably running, reading, or spending time with her family.
Check out her catalogue at pdworkman.com to start your next page-turner and sign up for news and special deals.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
February 2, 2022
Another interesting story. Definitely enjoyed the characters and the interaction.
January 17, 2022
I’m enjoying the “Breaking the Pattern” series. Sandy learned about criminal life at her father’s knee, as he led her from child porn to prostitution. But, Sandy wants to get her life together and go straight…not an easy thing to do. The complex characters, tight plot and expert storytelling make this one hard to put down. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to the next one in the series. I received a complimentary copy of this book and chose to write a voluntary, unbiased review.
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February 6, 2022If reading Henry, Breaking the Pattern left you curious and wanting to hear more about Sandy, this is your opportunity. Sandy is coming soon, available for preorder now.
December 5, 2021
Poignant and heart wrenching but at the same time exciting, thrilling edge of your seat unputdownable❣️
You are hooked as soon as you start reading...
Very anxious to read more . . .
More and more difficult to put down
You are hooked as soon as you start reading...
Very anxious to read more . . .
More and more difficult to put down
March 3, 2022
Sandy is the second book in the Breaking the Pattern series and it sucked me in just like the first book did. There is so much angst, turmoil, grief, sadness, illegal acts and crimes being committed. Through it all Sandy is street smart and knows how to protect herself most of the time. Her father and his cronies are involved in so many criminal acts but he offers her comfort and a feeling of safety.
We are reminded of things that have happened in the first book, Henry, and some of it circles around to this story. Sandy is trying to get her life together but she's naïve in some respects. I often had my heart racing and my gut clenching as I read. There was a feeling of darkness overshadowing the story and then a glimmer of light would shine through. She and Peter, while an unlikely pairing work and he offers her another layer of comfort and safety. Their daughter Gracie is a nice addition and I could tell they both wanted a better life for her.
The story had a nice flow with lots of twists and turns. There is some closure but enough loose ends to bring us to the next book in the series, Bobby. The story ended too abruptly for me.
Ms. Workman is an author whose books I enjoy and her books span many different genres. I look forward to reading Bobby and other books she's written.
We are reminded of things that have happened in the first book, Henry, and some of it circles around to this story. Sandy is trying to get her life together but she's naïve in some respects. I often had my heart racing and my gut clenching as I read. There was a feeling of darkness overshadowing the story and then a glimmer of light would shine through. She and Peter, while an unlikely pairing work and he offers her another layer of comfort and safety. Their daughter Gracie is a nice addition and I could tell they both wanted a better life for her.
The story had a nice flow with lots of twists and turns. There is some closure but enough loose ends to bring us to the next book in the series, Bobby. The story ended too abruptly for me.
Ms. Workman is an author whose books I enjoy and her books span many different genres. I look forward to reading Bobby and other books she's written.
February 6, 2022
Sandy - a review by Rosemary Kenny
Sandy is PD Workman's outstanding, (though at times disturbing) novel that tells the heart-achingly sad story of Sandy's descent from an abusive childhood - made to help her 'Da' in various con-tricks, work as a hooker, (without the 'glamour' of Pretty Woman's Vivienne - and get hooked on drugs, before moving on into a continuing, (though unwanted) means of supporting herself in adulthood.
She finally attempts to put her tragic past behind her and move forward to have an 'honest' relationship with Henry and fulfilment in the areas of life she's been held back from for so many wasted years...but who comes to haunt her from the past? Who is Gracie?
PD Workman gives a searingly emotional vision of how emotional and physical abuse from sex-trafficking, drug-addiction, and white-collar crime can affect young people like Sandy, Henry, Gracie and Bobby, that's guaranteed to haunt your dreams - or be broadcast on your preferred form of media.
Read it if you dare to take a walk on the wild side!
Sandy is PD Workman's outstanding, (though at times disturbing) novel that tells the heart-achingly sad story of Sandy's descent from an abusive childhood - made to help her 'Da' in various con-tricks, work as a hooker, (without the 'glamour' of Pretty Woman's Vivienne - and get hooked on drugs, before moving on into a continuing, (though unwanted) means of supporting herself in adulthood.
She finally attempts to put her tragic past behind her and move forward to have an 'honest' relationship with Henry and fulfilment in the areas of life she's been held back from for so many wasted years...but who comes to haunt her from the past? Who is Gracie?
PD Workman gives a searingly emotional vision of how emotional and physical abuse from sex-trafficking, drug-addiction, and white-collar crime can affect young people like Sandy, Henry, Gracie and Bobby, that's guaranteed to haunt your dreams - or be broadcast on your preferred form of media.
Read it if you dare to take a walk on the wild side!
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