Thoughts: I read this book in one sitting, besides turning pages, I really don’t think I moved until I finished. Hannah receives a note written by her husband saying ‘Protect Her’ and then discovers he has disappeared. Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey not satisfied with the responses they’re getting from the FBI start their own search but find out much more about his past than expected. This was a great page turner without being too close to a thriller. If you’re looking for a good MDW beach read this would be ideal!
Summary: Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.
Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.