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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 shes 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 celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack
is a detective who cant 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 mans 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 doesnt
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.