First published 2018
Andrea Cooper thinks she knows everything about her mother Laura. Laura has spent her entire life in Belle Isle, a small beachside town where she lives quietly as a respected community member. She has never kept secrets from her daughter. Then a routine shopping trip turns violent, and Andrea watches her mother transform into someone she doesn't recognize. Laura isn't who she claims to be. For three decades, she has hidden her true identity and stayed under the radar, hoping her past would never catch up. Now someone has found her, and her cover is blown. The police demand answers as Laura faces serious accusations, but she refuses to speak to anyone, including Andrea. With her mother's innocence at stake and no help from Laura herself, Andrea begins tracing the fragments of her mother's concealed history. She must uncover what Laura has been hiding for thirty years, or both their futures may be destroyed.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: deception, family-secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Belle Isle
Period: Contemporary
468 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: violence