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In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's seek out her missing child, weaving a taut emotional thriller as gripping and skilled as The Young lady on the Coach and The Guilty One. In the heartbeat, everything changes.... Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol area with her eight-year-old child, Ben, when he asks if they can run in advance. It's a typical request on a typical Sunday evening, and Rachel has no reason to be concerned - until Ben vanishes. Law enforcement officials are called, search people venture out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, seems herself coming undone. As hours and then days and nights pass without a signal of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel's recently hitched ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister. Undoubtedly, media attention focuses on Rachel, too, and the public's attitude toward her commences to shift from sympathy to suspicion. As she frantically pieces collectively the threadbare hints, Rachel realizes that there is nothing quite as she imagined it to be, not even her own wisdom. And the best dangers may lay not in the private strangers of every parent's nightmares but behind the familiar smiles of these she trusts the most. Where is Ben? The clock is ticking....
