Chasing Secrets- The Bailey Baxter Series

Everyone tells her that the new kid is bad news, but to Bailey he is just the escape she needs. He is her deviation from everything that is going on in her life.

What started as a perfect senior year for Bailey’s, turns into a heartbreaking year. All of Bailey plans are ruined with one simple phone call. Her newly formed relationship with her stepmother is strained. Her relationship is tied to a few phone calls, text message’s and emails. Her job as senior editor for the school newspaper might be taken over by the new kid.

Liam Garret’s life is spiraling out of control. He is on the path of loneliness. He’s Dad is in jail; his mom will not talk to him and his little sister hates him. After a fatal hit and run Liam feels imprisoned by a secret that could make him lose his only friend.

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Kim Moss is a wife, mother, teacher, author, blogger, and a poet. She has been writing ever since she could pick up a pencil and write. She wrote her first YA story on a legal pad in high school and has not stopped writing since. She is a teacher by day and writer by night. When she is not found writing, she is spending time outdoors with her family.

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Chasing Secrets is the third book in The Bailey Baxter series. Chasing Secrets begins a week after Bailey leaves Camp Golden Meadows. Bailey’s story is very much a story of most teen girls. The struggles that she goes through is identical to things that have happened to my friends or even me. Running away from our problems is how we all often tend to deal with the things we face.

We try to run and for a while, it works. We are able to continue on with life like nothing, but when we think that we have outrun the problems we slow down and that is when they catch up to us when we least expect it. That’s the beauty of being a Christian. That in these times of trying to run away from our problems, the Lord puts a roadblock in the way. Bailey’s roadblock was Liam. For a while, he provided the comfort that Bailey hungered for. He was there when she needed, he would carry her away from all of her problems on his motorcycle, and he did not expect her to have everything figured out.

What makes the Bailey Baxter series such an amazing series is the fact that you can connect with Bailey. You feel her pain because most of us have questioned, “Why God? Why do you let people die? The things that Bailey struggles with is something I find myself struggling with. I love the way that Kim Moss wrote this series because you are able to sympathize with the characters.

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This is really the perfect book for Christian Teens to read because of the fact that in their struggles they are pointed to the Lord. For example, these quotes are ones that I feel like most teens can connect with:

I can drive fast, but I can never outrun the guilt. I feel like it’s chasing me, and no matter what I do, I can’t escape. What will happen when it finally catches me?

(Page 248)

“Why? I asked God. Why do you let young people die? I cried out to Him, hoping He would answer. Why does it hurt so much? I asked. But as hard as I prayed, as much as I begged, God was silent—as if He, too, was keeping a secret from me.”

(Page 260)

“But I did breathe again. And God healed me little by little. I was angry. And for a long time, I was lost. But like I told you that day, sometimes God uses tragedy to reveal Himself to those He loves. Sometimes, He uses accidents like this to draw people to Him. He has numbered our days, and there’s nothing we can do to extend our lives one minute longer than what He has planned.”

(Page 262)

“Love hurts. It’s messy, and it cripples you. I loved my mom, and I lost her. That wrecked me. And when I look at Jill, I can’t imagine what she’s going through. I can’t lose someone like that again. I guess I just thought that if I pushed them both away now, it would hurt less later. Does that make sense? I’ve been so afraid of love, I’ve lost it.”

(Page 304)