My Review: Wow, what have I just read? I started this on a train from Berlin to Dusseldorf, I found myself gripped from the early pages. What do you get when you have the estranged wife and the estranged husband’s much younger new fiancé? I brilliant premise for friction and drama. Add to it, the new woman’s desire to lure her man’s kids into her life and slowly separate them from their mother by most means available.

Meet Carrie, her ex Jimmy and his fiancé Leah, who dotes on his kids in an alarming way, Shannon, Carrie’s ‘friend’ whom you can’t quite work out as she uncovers some secrets and lies. Then this mysterious old woman seen on a bus with a little girl?

Now, imagine adding Ava, whose gone missing. Her sister Maisy becoming mute and their older brother resenting his mother even more. Such a brilliant read, I was glued to it, suspenseful with omg moments. 5 shiny stars.

Book Description:

Watching my beautiful rosy-cheeked baby Ava play in the sand, I can’t believe how much joy she’s brought me. I look at the gentle waves of the ocean sparkling in the sun. But when I turn back, Ava is gone…

Everyone rushes to the beach to help search for Ava, but there’s no trace of her anywhere nearby. My ex-husband Jimmy is just as terrified as I am. But I get an odd feeling from his new girlfriend, Leah. As she cradles my other two children, she doesn’t seem as panicked as Jimmy and me. How can she be so calm?

Then they show me footage of Ava on a bus, held tightly by an elderly woman who looks just like Leah’s mother. Leah couldn’t have anything to do with Ava’s disappearance, could she?

I’ve seen the way Leah clings tightly to Jimmy, how she has moulded herself into the perfect housewife, never letting him lift a finger and cooking my children’s favourite meals every day.

Then the police officer in charge fixes me with a cold stare as he asks me why I wasn’t paying attention to my daughter. Suggesting it’s my fault she’s gone… That my older two would be safer in Leah’s care.

Should I share my suspicions? What if the police are looking in the wrong place? Time is running out to find Ava, and I’ll do whatever it takes to get her back, but are my accusations about to tear my whole family apart?

Fans of Liane Moriarty, Jodi Picoult and Linda Green will be completely gripped by this jaw-dropping page-turner filled with heart-stopping, emotional twists.

Author Bio:

Sam Vickery is an English author who loves gritty, emotional stories that can make you sob. As a child, she was forever getting in trouble for being caught with her nose in a book, and these days are no different. She lives on the south coast of England with her husband, two children and a cat that thinks it’s a dog.

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