When a young actress disappears without a trace, her mother begins a frantic search and is forced to acknowledge the disturbing truth about the young woman she realizes she never really knew.

After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart discovers that her husband, Jake-a high-profile Chicago attorney-is involved in yet another love affair. But a far greater crisis descends upon the Hart family after Jake leaves home: Mattie receives devastating news that will alter their lives. Wracked by guilt, Jake returns to the wife he has never really loved and the teenage daughter who wants nothing to do with him. Here, in these most unexpected of...

She's searching for the man who killed her daughter. But will he find her first? In a novel that grips like a waking nightmare, master storyteller Joy Fielding creates a searing examination of a horrifying crime, the limits of the law, and a woman's terrifying journey into a killer's twisted mind.