Iris Johansen has a new novel staring her popular character Eve Duncan. For years Eve has struggled trying to find closure for her daughter who was taken from her. She has learned the truth and is now trying to start a new life. Now she has the disturbing feeling that something is about to go very wrong. Eve's mother Sandra has asked for her help trying to find her missing friend Beth. What worries Eve is that her mom refuses to call the police. Eve suspects that her mother may be hiding something from her, and that something might be very wrong. As Sandra reluctantly gives Eve information, she learns that Beth has been locked in a mental hospital for three years, she is shocked to find out that their fates may be intertwined, and all their lives could now be in danger.
She hires Kendra Michaels to investigate and learns the weird circumstances behind Beth's disappearance from a supposedly safe hospital room. Now that Beth has escaped and her mind is being cleared by the lack of drugs, she starts to see a twisted plot unwind within the Avery family, that threatens to destroy her and anyone who tries to stop what is already in motion.
One Summer day, 16 year old Laurel Nicolson comes down from her childhood tree house after a family party to see a man walking up their farmhouse driveway and her mother stopping to talk to him. By the end of the day she witnesses a shocking crime that challenges everything that she knows about her family and especially her mother Dorothy. Now fifty years later Laurel is an actress and has returned to the family home for Dorothy's ninetieth birthday party. She know this may be her last chance to learn the truth and the only answers are in her mother's past. Dorothy's story starts in pre-WWII and takes us through time to the 60s and beyond. Her story involves three strangers who meet by chance in war time London, and their lives are forever intertwined. It is a story of dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometime create.
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