Zelly Ruskin Follow

This book is a complex and emotional read that will keep you thinking and feeling in ways that you would not have for seen at the start of reading.

I love a read that draws me in and makes me feel for every character. From Billie the adoption social worker trying to have her own child, to Tyler - Billie's husband- a lawyer who is being stalked, to Anne who as a very young teen gave her own child up for adoption, to all the side characters ALL these people have complex personalities and motivations as well their own aspects of bodily and reproductive rights that make this story one that anyone - man or woman, mother or child, husband or wife, innocent or victim - can learn from and feel for. Empathy - in one word that is what this book will leave you with after the mystery is solved.

This is a wonderfully written exploration of so many contemporary social issues and it is a work of fiction that is more than can be captured in a term like domestic thriller or suspense. This is women's fiction, but one that truly brings in the male perspective of infertility treatment, abu5e, vio1ence, adoption, family and psychology. I loved that each of the main characters got their chance to speak directly to me. And by allowing me to see how they each thought and felt directly, Ruskin made this book a gripping psychological drama!