Fourteen years ago, someone stole one of my twin babies. Now she’s back. But there’s something wrong.
The guilt never stopped. Four in the morning, every morning, wondering whether her daughter was still alive. Somehow Bella built a life around the gap: a beautiful Cotswolds home, her remaining daughter, a marriage held together by the thinnest thread of hope.
Then she walks into her own kitchen and finds her. It is the moment she has dreamed about for fourteen years. So why does this girl watch her without blinking? Why does she play for her husband’s attention, and whisper behind her back?
Bella has spent fourteen years wanting her daughter home. Now she isn’t sure she wants this girl in the house at all, and this girl very much wants them.
The guilt never stopped. Four in the morning, every morning, wondering whether her daughter was still alive. Somehow Bella built a life around the gap: a beautiful Cotswolds home, her remaining daughter, a marriage held together by the thinnest thread of hope.
Then she walks into her own kitchen and finds her. It is the moment she has dreamed about for fourteen years. So why does this girl watch her without blinking? Why does she play for her husband’s attention, and whisper behind her back?
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