Audrey Campbell’s new book It Should Have Been the End, currently rated 5 stars on Barnes and Noble, is her second published literary work and first novel. As a member of the 13-year club, Campbell has taken to heart many of the lessons she’s learned from her Ensworth career about life, happiness, and kindness, sharing them on paper. She hopes the novel will, “change the way people view events and others around them.” Additionally, Campbell aspires to let readers know that “everything is going to be ok in the end.” It took her a period of six years from inception to completion and is inspired by everything from “current events to things that subconsciously stick with [Campbell]”. The novel is a bildungsroman focused on the development of Rhea Hansen, a victim of child abuse and abduction by the evil Quinn Stephenson. As a young adult, Rhea heroically turns her anger to action and adopts 12 children with stories similar to her’s and establishes the ‘Elysium Harbor United.’ Years after the failed conviction of her assailant, Rhea gets an ominous phone call from none other than Quinn himself. Memories she once thought she left behind come back in full force to test her courage once again. Will Rhea survive? Will he take her and the rest of her family down without justice? You’ll just have to find out in It Should Have Been the End.
- Parker Stack, Editor