I started reading books again everyday a couple years ago, a New Year resolution. I just bought books that Bookbub suggested. I’ve enjoyed most, didn’t care for a few but, I loved this book. It held me captive till the very last page. It’s the first book I’ve read by this author. I’ll read more!

I am an avid reader, but I read suspense novels. And this book was listed as suspense. I didn’t understand it. In fact, I nearly gave up on the book, put it to the side and let it sit, unfinished. But I kept at it. After the book was over 90% complete, it did get suspenseful for maybe one chapter. But overall, it is a good book and told a good story. An important story to someone. But the person who listed it as a suspense has no freakin idea. They would likely lose their mind if ever reading something I like to read.

I read this from cover to cover without any breaks and as fast as I was devouring this harrowing violent and terrifying life that Cala Lily and her mother Alma had endured. They’d been imprisoned and abused in a vicious and brutal domestically abusive environment at the hands of her father. The escalation was terrorizing and the attempted escapes thwarted by his stalking, obsessive rage and had diminished his wife and Cala Lily’s mother so badly that it was impossible for her to form a coherent and effective plan to save herself and her daughter. It was always Cala Lily getting between her father’s physical beatings and demanding he get her to the hospital. The years and years of medical records and obvious abuse she was subjected to wasn’t unknown by the medical community. Yet this kid and her brutally battered mother had no one on their behalf speaking up for them, assisting them to leave and the times they’d tried, he’d found them and the beatings would be worse than ever, they were stuck. Until one light her father landed over the balcony, 33 floors down, she immediately hopped a bus and would learn her mother went to prison bc of biased police reports of her mothers alcoholism and refusal to press charges. She changes her entire life from 17 years old and has a husband and a child Sam and her life has been better for remaining secretive about her past never even telling her owl husband. Until she receives a letter from her mother in prison. She was supposed to think she was dead. She had changed her name etc how had she found her and what does want? The world she so desperately curated was about to implode and so she puts into motion a plan to stop it from being revealed and destroying her family.