Her Perfect Life by Hank Phillippi Ryan

 

Lily Atwood has the perfect life, a seven year old daughter Rowan, a career as a television reporter, lots of money and fame.  Her hashtag is #PerfectLily.  But what the fans don't know about are the secrets in Lily's past.

One secret is the father of her daughter.  Lily has been able to avoid talking about it so far by claiming privacy is necessary for the safety of her daughter.  But she knows the time is coming when her daughter's questions about her father will become more insistent and she will have to share the truth.

The biggest secret though is that of her sister Cassie.  Cassie disappeared twenty years ago when she was a freshman at college and Lily was just a small child.  A huge investigation discovered nothing.  Cassie just was there one day and the next completely off the face of the earth.  Had she been kidnapped?  Had she run away?  Was she alive somewhere or dead within a few days of the disappearance?  Lily had lived with those questions as long as she could remember but even with all her journalistic resources had never come any closer to answers.

But that may be about to change.  Someone is sending Lily flowers without a signature.  She is getting phone calls from a man who insists he knows everything about Cassie's disappearance and is ready to talk about it.  Is he real or a stalker who wants to get close to Lily?  Is he the man who stole Cassie and now ready to take Rowan's mother away from her also?

This thriller was fast paced and intriguing.  The story is told through interlocking chapters of the past and the present and in the voices of Lily, Cassie and Lily's producer, Greer.  The mysteries of the long ago crimes are fully revealed with surprises for the reader along the way.  I listened to this novel and the narrator was perfect.  This book is recommended for thriller readers.