What if your husband tells you he’s on a trip with friends… but he’s lying? And what if the truth shatters everything you ever believed about your own family?

Katie loves the life she’s built with her husband Zach: a comfortable home, two bright daughters, a teaching career she loves. When Zach decides to go on a camping trip with old friends, Katie hopes it will help him heal after the loss of his father.

But why, when she bumps into the wife of one of his friends, does the other woman look confused, and tell her there’s no camping trip at all?

Before Katie can catch a breath, a phone call comes that shatters her world. “Mrs Sutherland, this is Manchester Hospital, in New Hampshire. Your husband is here. Can you come right away?”

Katie is terrified. Was he lying about the trip? How did he end up in a hospital bed, far from home? And how is she ever going to break the news to her daughters?

Journeying to his side, she’ll discover the answers stretch back to the summer they met, and a terrible truth at the heart of both their families that will change everything.

Is the life they built together a lie? If Zach wakes up, can Katie ever forgive him? Or will his secrets tear them apart for good?

A completely gripping and emotional read about the trust we place in our loved ones, and what it really means to be a family. Fans of Diane Chamberlain, Jodi Picoult and Amanda Prowse won’t be able to put this down.

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