Love Hurts: The True Story of a Teen Romance, a Vicious Plot, and a Family Murdered

· Macmillan
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From a New York Times–bestselling author—a true crime story of a Texas teen’s 2008 plot to murder her parents for not approving of her boyfriend.

“Readers will be haunted by Greenberg’s . . . eminently readable true crime tale.”—Publishers Weekly

Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried—but failed—to save his two youngest children before crawling out of his burning house. Meanwhile, Terry’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was missing…

Once Erin was found by local authorities, she claimed she had been kidnapped—but could not remember the details. It wasn’t until Terry was fully conscious that he could explain what had really happened: He’d been shot, point-blank, by two young men. One of them he did not know; the other was Charlie James Wilkinson. Charlie was Erin’s nineteen-year-old boyfriend, forbidden from entering the Caffey home. Until Erin helped Charlie come up with a plan to do away with her disapproving parents once and for all . . .

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3.7
9 reviews
Eddie Gallo
August 17, 2018
Very sad story. Young people who destroyed their future. No doubt there were many things that came together to end with this result and there are lessons to be learned by parents and teen-agers alike.
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Marie Vandeventer
March 5, 2019
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About the author

Keith Elliot Greenberg is a producer for America's Most Wanted, and coauthor of wrestler Ric Flair's New York Times bestselling autobiography, To Be the Man. He's written for Maxim, the New York Observer, Village Voice and USA Today, among others, and authored more than 30 non-fiction childrens' books. He and his family live in Brooklyn, New York.

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