First published 2024
Kathryn Walker has built what looks like an ideal existence in suburban Colorado. Her husband practices medicine successfully. Her children excel in their pursuits. She fills her days with charitable work that benefits her community. As a new year begins, everything seems to fall into place perfectly. Then April arrives. This month has brought Kathryn pain before, including the loss of a child she miscarried years ago. The emotional wounds from that tragedy still affect her deeply. Now someone is watching her family. A private detective follows her movements. Evidence mounts that someone wants to destroy her husband and end her life. Kathryn must face the possibility that her carefully constructed world is under attack. The same month that took her child may now threaten everything she has left. She struggles to understand who wants to harm her family and why. The investigation forces her to confront the troubled history she has worked so hard to leave behind.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Colorado
Period: New Year
272 pages · Kindle Edition · Harper
Content warnings: infertility, pregnancy-loss