First published 2018
Molly drives her silver Mercedes through the upscale streets of Goldenhills, Massachusetts, her designer kitchen and marriage to cosmetic dentist Tanner creating the picture of suburban success. She has raised a daughter now finishing high school and helps care for Tanner's twin boys from his previous marriage. Her neighbors see only the polished surface. They don't know about Tanner's controlling behavior behind closed doors. They certainly don't know that Molly used to be Maddy Carmichael, a girl who lived with her twin brother and absent mother in a Florida trailer park surrounded by orange groves. Something happened on prom night nearly twenty years ago. Something that led Maddy to take revenge and then disappear completely. Now the carefully constructed walls around Molly's new identity are beginning to crumble. Old secrets surface alongside new ones. Molly must confront the painful reality of who she was and the decisions she made to survive, searching for the courage to become the person she always wanted to be.
Genres: domestic-fiction, suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: deception, hidden-past, redemption, second-chance
Setting: Florida, Goldenhills, Massachusetts
Period: 1990s, 2010s
MP3 CD · Brilliance Audio
Content warnings: abuse, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse