by Nancy Werlin
A young girl makes a disturbing discovery when she finds a photograph tucked away in her father's pocket. The image shows another little girl, a stranger who immediately feels like a threat to everything she knows about her family. The photograph raises questions she cannot ask and suggests secrets she was never meant to uncover. As she stares at this other child's face, jealousy and fear take hold. She realizes that this unknown girl represents something dangerous to her place in her father's life. The discovery forces her to confront the possibility that she is not as important to her father as she believed. Determined to protect what she sees as rightfully hers, she begins to plan. Her decision to take action against this perceived rival will test the bonds of family and reveal how far a child will go when she feels her security threatened. Nancy Werlin draws inspiration from Daphne du Maurier's classic to create this tense exploration of childhood jealousy and the lengths we go to defend our place in the world.
Genres: mystery, contemporary, psychological-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
11 pages · Kindle Edition