Then She Was Gone
Ellie Mack had everything going for her. Fifteen years old, the youngest of three siblings, adored by family and friends alike, and on the cusp of a sun-soaked summer holiday after her exams. Life felt full of promise. Then, without warning, she was gone. A decade later, her mother Laurel is still picking up the pieces. The marriage collapsed seven years ago. The investigation went cold. And only recently has a fresh fragment of evidence surfaced, reopening wounds she'd spent years trying to close. So when a quietly magnetic stranger strikes up a conversation with her in a café, the last thing Laurel expects is to fall for him. Yet somehow, she does. Fast. Meeting Floyd's children feels like a natural next step, until it isn't. His youngest daughter, Poppy, stops Laurel cold. The resemblance is uncanny, unsettling, almost impossible to rationalise. Suddenly, every question Laurel had buried claws its way back to the surface. Did Ellie run away, as the police always assumed? Or was something far darker at work? And who, precisely, is the man she's now trusting with her heart? This is a tightly wound psychological thriller that earns its tension honestly, building dread through quiet details rather than cheap shocks. It's the kind of book you read in great hungry gulps, propelled forward by a mother's grief that feels painfully true.
- Author: Unknown
- Publisher: Arrow
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-1787469266
- Pages: 384 pages