First published 1981
Terri Mueller has lived her entire life with just her father. He told her that her mother died in a car accident when Terri was four years old. She accepts this story, but questions gnaw at her. Why does her father keep no photographs of her mother? Why do they move from town to town without explanation? Terri finds her birth certificate and studies it for clues about the mother she cannot remember. Then she overhears someone telling her father to reveal the truth to Terri. The pieces start forming a disturbing picture. Her father may be running from something or someone. The story he told her about her mother's death might be a lie. Terri realizes that the man she trusts most in the world has built their entire relationship on deception. She must decide whether to confront him or investigate on her own. The truth about her mother and their constant relocations threatens to destroy everything Terri believed about her family.
Genres: mystery, contemporary, psychological-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, unreliable-narrator
224 pages · Library Binding · Tandem Library