Amber Garza

Sve je počelo jednog običnog jesenjeg jutra, kada je Keli Medina primila poziv pedijatra svog sina, kako bi potvrdila termin za pregled bebe. To je greška, jer njen je sin pre godinu dana otišao na koledž, a Keli nikada nije bila tako usamljena. Ispostavlja se da se još jedna majka u gradu zove Keli Medina, i verovatno su pomešali njihove brojeve telefona. Ali Keli ne može da prestane da razmišlja o toj tajanstvenoj ženi istog imena. Živi u istom gradu. Ima sina kojeg i dalje može da drži u naručju. I čitav život pred sobom. Svuda je traži: u prodavnicama, u teretani, na društvenim mrežama. Kada kao slučajno naleti na nju ispred ordinacije pedijatra, radoznalost će je potpuno savladati. Njihovo neobično prijateljstvo doneće Keli osećaj da ponovo ima svrhu, dok brine o toj mladoj ženi i njenom predivnom malom dečaku. Ali prijateljstvo ubrzo prerasta u opsesiju – i kada jedna Keli nestane, ova druga možda zna zašto.

In this chilling new novel, a woman discovers that her estranged daughter is missing, but no one believes her, until she meets a man claiming to be her daughter’s fiancé. Tatum hasn’t seen her daughter, Adrienne, in years, not since Tatum’s husband—the pastor in their small California town—all but disowned her. When she finally gathers the courage to secretly reconnect with Adrienne, Tatum’s thrilled she’s even willing to talk to her. But then—Adrienne disappears. Tatum tries desperately to get the police or her husband to take her daughter’s disappearance seriously, but no one will listen, until a mysterious man shows up claiming to be Adrienne’s fiancé. It’s a relief to finally have someone who believes her, someone who’s trying as hard as she is to find out where Adrienne is. But can she trust that this stranger is who he says he is? And can she find her daughter before it’s too late?

“Do we ever really know our children? Amber Garza invites readers to untangle the web of a family just like yours—or are they? This thriller will have you triple-guessing yourself.” —Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I Disappear A mother questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead. Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house—one rumored to be haunted after a tragedy decades earlier—and truth be told, she is a little lonely. With few options, she asks her adult son to move home, but it’s not quite the reunion she hoped for. Hudson is taciturn, moody and frequently gone. The neighbors already hold a grudge against Hudson, and they aren’t happy about his return. When a young woman is found murdered a block away, suspicion falls on him immediately, without a shred of evidence. While Valerie fights to defend her son, she begins to wonder who she really invited into her home. It’s a horrible thing for a mother to even think…but is it possible she’s enabled a monster? A monster she is living with, alone?

From the author of When I Was You comes a spine-tingling new thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare come true, when her teenage daughter goes to a sleepover and doesn’t come back. Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple answers the door—Amelia and Lauren aren’t there, and this couple swears they never were, that she’s at the wrong house. As Whitney searches for Amelia, she uncovers a trail of lies her daughter has told her—from the Finsta account to rumors of a secret relationship. Does she really even know this girl she’s raised? And Amelia’s not the only one with secrets. Could Whitney’s own demons have something to do with her daughter’s disappearance, and can Whitney find her before it’s too late?