Diane Jeffrey, winner of an International Thriller Writers Award, returns with a brilliantly tense thriller which explores how much a parent can ever truly know their child.
Since Joshua Knoll disappeared, rumours have swirled around his hometown. Carla Ashford, a mother of the young woman Joshua dated for a while, can't help but be pleased that the handsome student is now out of her daughter's lives. He was responsible for cruelly circulating a photo of her daughter in a toxic bullying campaign, which caused Iris great distress.
But when a body is found and the police investigation begins, no stone is left unturned. Slowly a pattern of manipulation and abuse is revealed which has left lasting scars on the small community.
But someone knows what happened to Joshua, and Carla is determined to discover the truth, even it means becoming further entangled in family secrets...