Breakthrough Lies: A Jack Kendall Mystery, Book Five - Softcover

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She was taken from her home at five in the morning. Not by strangers—by people who claimed they were rescuing her.

Julie McLaughlan is sixteen, an honors student, and she has never touched drugs. But when her estranged father signs a consent form, Breakthrough's "Split Squad" drags her from her bed into a Florida teen rehabilitation program that promises to save troubled kids.

Her mother refuses to accept it. She calls the one person who might listen: Jack Kendall, an investigative reporter who exposed Breakthrough's abusive methods two years earlier—and has never forgiven himself for walking away.

What Jack finds this time is worse than he imagined. Teens are starved of sleep, humiliated, and isolated until they break. Survivors describe physical and emotional abuse that leaves scars long after release—disturbing findings that echo the real troubled-teen industry, where therapeutic boarding programs and treatment centers often fail the families they claim to serve. The stories Jack uncovers are hard to hear, but they reveal a pattern that has been hiding in plain sight.

The program's founder, a wealthy developer named George Macy, is the leading force behind Breakthrough. He has bought silence from regulators, politicians, and law enforcement—despite mounting evidence that children are being harmed. His operation cons parents with false promises while it hurts kids behind locked doors. And the cost of exposing him grows with every question Jack asks.

As Jack follows the money through Florida's halls of power, he uncovers a political cover-up that reaches further than any conspiracy he has ever investigated. The people protecting Breakthrough are willing to do anything to keep their secrets buried.

Rooted in real troubled-teen programs and careful reporting, Breakthrough Lies is a compelling investigative mystery about a journalist risking everything to expose a system that sells abuse as therapy. It traces the roots of an industry built on deception—and serves as an effective guide to the courage it takes to demand the truth.

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