When Never Comes

An Amazon Charts most-read and most-sold book.

Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair--and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.

As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred. For a while, she found a safe haven in her marriage to bestselling crime novelist Stephen Ludlow--until his car skidded into Echo Bay. But Stephen's wasn't the only body pulled from the icy waters that night. When details about a mysterious violet-eyed blonde become public, a media circus ensues, and Christy-Lynn runs again.

Desperate for answers, she's shattered to learn that Stephen and his mistress had a child--a little girl named Iris, who now lives in poverty with her ailing great-grandmother. The thought of Iris abandoned to the foster care system--as Christy-Lynn once was--is unbearable. But she's spent her whole life running--determined never to be hurt again. Will she finally stand still long enough to open herself up to forgiveness and love?

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Published Oct 30, 2018

369 pages

Average rating: 7.41

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GraceBayGirl
Aug 07, 2025
6/10 stars
Had a hard time getting through this. Started out promising and then slowed down and got rather predictable. While I recognize a bit of me in Christy Lynn and how her childhood impacts her keeping her independent, alone, unfulfilled, the ending with Iris is rather far fetched.
LVoskan
Mar 08, 2025
7/10 stars
The baggage one has from growing up in poverty is trauma they will carry with them forever. This book did a great job showing us the trauma and the slow way to start to climb out of it. Life is messy. And “never” is just a construct we make and enforce.
Jenn Queenbee
Mar 27, 2025
10/10 stars
Love this author! Once I got to halfway could not put book down!
sweetbbytaye
Feb 03, 2025
8/10 stars
Great read!

TW: rape, DV

This book is a little repetitive, but Bryson beyond that is a beautiful story about growth and happiness.
Jody Joy
Nov 07, 2024
8/10 stars
Good

This book for me was a bit hard to put down at first. Christy Lynn was raised by a drunken mother who was in and out of prison all the time. So Christy Lynn was in and out of foster homes all the time. It was very hard for her to trust and to open up her heart to anyone. Then she finds out that her husband who dies in a car accident had an affair and had a child with that woman. It wasn't a bad book it was a pretty good book it was just a little slow at times that's the only thing that I had a problem with.

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