The Stepdaughter

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Bookouture, Hachette Publishing

Published September 2, 2020

A thirteen-year-old girl goes missing at the same time her neighbor’s house burns to the ground. Coincidence? Or are the two events connected? The stepmother was the last one to see her swimming in the backyard pool, and now Mia is missing, and the woman’s husband is accusing her of never caring enough for the girl. With the community pulling together, the frantic overnight search, neighbors faced with arson, and several marriages on the brink, the police focus their attention on the stepmother and that critical hour when the girl first disappeared. Is this a staged kidnapping or something more sinister? And is what everyone initially thought about each family member wrong? Assumptions about the fractured stepmother-stepdaughter relationship have never been more flawed.