Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada, May 25th, 2021

Format: Paperback Pages: 288

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

We all have stories we never tell.
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 US Marshal and FBI 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, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah nor Bailey could have anticipated.

My Review:

Thank you Simon and Schuster Canada for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: fast-paced mysteries, disappearances.
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When Hanna’s husband goes missing, he leaves one message: protect his daughter. This plunges Hannah into trying to unravel the mystery of her husbands life in order to best protect Bailey.
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I have seen some reviews that say that this was a bit predictable, but this was just the type of mystery that I needed when I read it. I found it fast paced, the characters interesting, and I wanted to keep reading in order to figure out what was happening. I read this in a day and found I could just immerse myself in this book, which is a great feeling. I really liked Hannah-she really cared about Bailey and was willing to do whatever to keep her safe, even though Bailey was reluctant to accept Hannah at first.
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CW: child abandonment, death of a parent, violence, fraud.