First published 2018
Dr Noah Alderman has found happiness again. The widowed single father recently married Maggie, and their new life together feels like a fresh start. When Maggie receives an unexpected opportunity to reconnect with Anna, the teenage daughter she believed was gone from her life permanently, both Noah and Maggie feel excited about becoming a family of three. Anna is seventeen when she finally comes to live with them. Her arrival transforms their household in ways Noah never anticipated. What begins as a hopeful reunion quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. The events that follow will destroy their carefully rebuilt world and force Noah to confront truths that challenge everything he thought he knew about his new family.
Genres: contemporary, psychological-thriller, mystery-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, unreliable-narrator
388 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness