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Genre: Thriller
ebook, 279 pages
Hardcover, 359 pages
Published: 2017
Awards: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2018)
Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewellβperfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty.
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone.
Now, her mother Laurel Mack is trying to put her life back together. Itβs been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellieβs case was unearthed. So when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a cafΓ©, no one is more surprised than Laurel at how quickly their flirtation develops into something deeper. Before she knows it, sheβs meeting Floydβs daughtersβand his youngest, Poppy, takes Laurelβs breath away.
Because looking at Poppy is like looking at Ellie. And now, the unanswered questions sheβs tried so hard to put to rest begin to haunt Laurel anew. Where did Ellie go? Did she really run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or was there a more sinister reason for her disappearance? Who is Floyd, really? And why does his daughter remind Laurel so viscerally of her own missing girl?