The Road Rises Up

About the Book

The Road Rises Up is a story about discovery - both personal and criminal.

Abby McNair is a high school freshman who runs cross country track. She practices every day after school with the boys team and runs side by side with her two closest friends, Brian and Steve.

Steve’s younger brother Joey disappears one rainy afternoon and Abby searches the clues and searches her soul to find answers to questions she’d never thought to ask. She learns the truth about the disappearance but more importantly the truth about her own character. These truths shape the rest of her life.

About the Author

Helaine Krob spent her formative years in New York, but now lives near Washington, DC. She graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a B.S. in Biology and received an MBA from George Washington University. Helaine has been happily married for 14 years and has one darling child. She is happiest bird watching or listening to the Replacements or the Afghan Whigs and of course, reading.