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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a U.S. Marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
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i thought this was going to be much more of a murder mystery type but instead it was very corporate, government, crime, fraud, mafia, etc. which I wasn’t anticipating. also i didn’t really like the ending but the book was okay overall.
0I enjoyed this, but don’t feel like I can rate it more than 3 stars. It kept me engaged the whole time, but I found the wrap up to be anticlimactic and the ending to be super underwhelming. I liked the theme of chosen family and some of the mysterious characters, but wish that these other characters had been part of bigger reveals or had nefarious intentions. The writing could be confusing at times. It could be hard to catch on when a flashback was referenced in a non-flashback chapter. The way the author filled in background information that predates the story was just not very clear. There were also times that something specifically mentioned (ie a waitress taking their order) wasn’t really brought up again, which made it really hard to keep track of how much time had passed in one scene. Sometimes it was as if hours had gone by in the scene, but there were only two lines of writing. Just made it hard to picture the scene happening and track the timeline.
0This domestic suspense book by Laura Dave was such an easy read. The way she writes dialogue is so realistic and intriguing. The story starts with Hannah getting a note from her husband, Owen, that says “Protect her”. She doesn’t understand why she’s getting this note, but she does know who it is referring to; Owen’s teenage daughter, Bailey. Bailey and Hannah do not have to best relationship. Bailey has been living alone with her dad for almost her whole life and was not ready to share him with Hannah when they married one year ago. Hannah also receives a note from her father and $600,000 in cash. Hannah knows that the business Owen works for is in trouble, but she doesn’t understand why he ran away with no explanation. When the FBI and Us Marshals contact her, she finds out that Owen has a very different past than what he told her. Hannah and Bailey travel to Texas to find answers as to who Owen truly is and along the way, they grow closer to each other.
This story had me hooked from the beginning. I was anxious to see who Owen really was, but I was just as invested in Hannah and Bailey’s relationship as well.
While I wasn’t completely satisfied with the conclusion, I did love the mother daughter bond that formed between the two women. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves drama and mystery!
Special thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for gifting me an ARC of this novel.
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