Book Overview
Description
"A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you'll never see coming. Stacy Willingham's debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime." —Karin Slaughter
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she's worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in...
Highlights & Quotes
(8)There
’s a hint of spice in the air as I step out of my car and slam the door, clicking the lock button twice on my key fob. I turn my nose toward the sky and sniff, trying to place the scent. Seafood, maybe. Something fishy. Maybe the neighbors are having a barbecue, and for a
The writer is very mindful of the character’s physical movements.
Slows my heart rate, my breathing, the same way the Xanax does.
The Xanax will be a thing.
His mere existence is a reminder that the image I project out into the world isn’t actually real, but carefully crafted. That I’m one small stumble away from shattering into a million pieces, revealing who I really am.
,” he says slowly. “And a golf tournament tomorrow before the conference begins on Monday. You don’t remember any of this?” My heart lurches in my chest. No,
Do I trust him?
We can do 2020 if you’d like.”
Let us not
think back to the prescription in my car; the Xanax I filled for Daniel that he doesn’t know about or need
I did not make the connection.
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