Nick's mother died while he was a teenager after a fall down the stairs in their home. Nick found her. While he was still grieving, his father Duncan brought home a new wife and stepmother for Nick. Maggie had been a troubled teen when she met Duncan in the organization he ran for teenagers who need help. Now years later, the two meet again and fall in love. Nick and Maggie are at odds immediately. Nick has the ability to make Maggie look bad, that she is lying when she tells Duncan what Nick says and does when its just the two of them. Maggie and Duncan have a baby and when Maggie sees that Nick will hurt his stepsister, she and Duncan make a decision. One day Nick comes home to find nobody there. Duncan, Maggie and the baby are gone and there is no trace of them in the years after. Nick is sent to boarding school to finish growing up.
Maggie sees Nick as a strong male who is kind and loving. But when they go to his home to visit, she gets differing opinions. His aunt openly despises him. His former best friend believes Nick is evil. Who is right and what happened to his family all those years before?
Jane Renshaw is a British author who works in the suspense genre. This novel goes back and forth in time between the present and the past around the time of Nick's family's disappearance. At one point, he seems evil, at another he seems misunderstood and done hard by. I listened to this novel and the narrator did an excellent job. One of my favorite parts was the epilogue when the reader finds out what happens after the novel's climatic end. This book is recommended for mystery readers.
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