Published by Bookouture on March 14, 2023
Format: Audiobook, eARC, eBook
Source: Bought, Net Galley
Pages: 389
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Also by this author: Who Cares If They Die, Where the Snow Bleeds, Won't You Save Me, Where the Snow Bleeds, The Girl Who Died, Who Cares If They Die, Shadow Falls, Cry for Help, Little Girl Taken, Gone to Her Grave, Catch Her Death, Her Lonely Bones, Grave Mountain
My parents seem to be the perfect couple. But no one knows what I know…
Everyone in the small Midwestern town of Henderson looks up to my perfect parents. With dependable jobs as a midwife and the town sheriff, they help this close-knit community feel safe. But the locals didn’t grow up in my parents’ house. They don’t know what I know. And they wouldn’t believe me if I told them…
After my best friend vanished when we were just fifteen, I left town and never looked back. I couldn’t prove it, but I think my parents killed her.
Now, years later, my little sister has vanished. I have no choice but to go home and play happy families again. Because I have to find out what my parents have done to her. I have to try to save her.
But when bones are discovered on a local farm, and all the evidence leads back to our front door, I realize I was wrong about absolutely everything. And that coming back was the deadliest thing I could do…
I do love me a book by Wendy! I know she will never let me down, I mean this is the woman who gave me my first-ever book crush…Oh, Dean…ahem! This book is something else. Completely.
The blurb got me, hooked me and the opening pages too, it did dip a little but boy did the last quarter of the book get the pulse racing. I thought I had got the killer from the start of the audiobook I was like, it’s that person. I stuck with it and stuck with it and despite being wrong, I wasn’t far wrong. And that twist was a shock.
It was a dark story, a hard story for Nicole, you can see why she ran. I wouldn’t want to be in that toxic house. However, as we all know secrets always lead to resentment, bruised pride and tension. We had all of that here, and a heck of a lot more!! My head was spinning from the revelations, I couldn’t believe how much happened. It was just awesome!
The story was woven so well with the current day and Lori recounting the last few weeks of her life. I love books that do this because it adds to the intensity of the tale, as we are racing to find out what the heck is going on. And boy I needed to know what happened! Especially when things seem to have gotten twisted in the past, and you have seen the fallout in the present day.
I love and devour Wendy’s words. She sucks you in and she won’t let you go until she has told you the story that she needs to tell you. Not going to lie I did miss Nate and Dean, but it was also refreshing to meet new people from Wendy’s dark mind. I enjoyed every minute of the story. God, so much I want to tell you about Nicole, Lucas, and Lori – my heart broke for Lori, but I don’t want to spoil anything.
Just pick the book up! It has everything you could ask for.
Until the next time xxx
My thanks to Bookouture for the tour invite and a copy of the book in return for my honest and unbiased review.
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