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The Secret Storm

by Dale Berne

A custody case told by father and son

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A custody case told by father and son

Dale Berne and his son Scott recount a child-custody and parental-abduction case through their own accounts. The description traces the sons’ two-year journey across five countries and thirteen residences alongside their father’s search for them. It also places the case within the family’s wider upheaval, including disputes over custody and visitation and allegations of violence, property loss, and workplace discrimination. The book’s scope connects a private family crisis with the national and international attention surrounding the search, while keeping the father’s and son’s perspectives at the center.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in true crime involving missing persons and parental abduction.
  • Readers seeking firsthand accounts of family custody disputes.
  • Readers interested in cases that drew national and international media attention.

Themes

Child custody and visitationParental abduction and searchFamily disruptionFather-and-son perspectives

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Book overview

This is THE SECRET STORM! It is the true story (nonfiction) of a landmark child custody battle and parental abduction case. THIS IS A STORY THAT SHOCKED THE NATION AND THE WORLD.

This book, THE SECRET STORM, portrays the true and vivid accounts of child custody, visitations and kidnapping as told by a father, Dale Berne, and a son, Scott Berne.

When the author gained legal custody of his two sons, his ex-wife and her father hired a hit man to kill him, burned down their family home, absconded with the family bank account, created personal and professional discrimination at Dale Berne's place of work, and parentally kidnapped their two sons, Scott and Mark.

The boys were taken on a two-year, three-week dangerous journey to five countries and thirteen residences while simultaneously catapulting Dale Berne into an unprecedented search culminating with national and international notoriety and mainstream media attention.

 

The voices of Dale and Scott jump off each page as they struggle to cope with the emotional roller coaster of events and their efforts to swim out of the turbulent waters of disaster and into a tranquil stream of a stable family environment.

 

"From victims to survivors."

 

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