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Harlan Coben follows four consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers with a stand alone
thriller in the vein of his beloved breakout novels Caught and Hold Tight.

Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side.
Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of
dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age
forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrityobsessed
rich kids. Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case—a local husband
and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every
year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers
left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them.

Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest
to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede. Even as the terrible
consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin
lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the
past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream—the boredom
of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that
can lurk behind even the prettiest facades—they will discover the hard truth that the
line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.

With his trademark combination of page-turning thrills and unrivaled insight
into the dark shadows that creep into even the happiest communities, Harlan Coben
delivers a thriller that cements his status as the master of domestic suspense.

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