by Darcey Bell
First published 2017
Stephanie says yes immediately when her best friend Emily asks her to collect her son from school. It seems like the kind of small favor mothers do for each other all the time. Their five-year-old boys are classmates who get along as well as their mothers do. But hours pass and Emily never comes to get her child. She doesn't answer phone calls or respond to messages. Stephanie senses something serious has happened. As time goes on, she begins to realize that nothing in her life is as straightforward as she believed. Not their friendship. Not love. Not even a favor that seemed completely ordinary. Emily knows all of Stephanie's secrets, which makes her dangerous. When Emily vanishes, Stephanie's life as a single mother takes a sharp turn. The simple request that started everything reveals layers of complexity Stephanie never imagined.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: friends-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: United States
Period: 21st-century
332 pages · Paperback · La Campana