Introduction

Don't look away

No one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, the stuff of nightmares. But when she turns her back to pay a parking meter, Carrie Morgan becomes that mother. Ben is gone, and more than a year later, it's clear that he is never coming back.

Until he does...for just twenty-four hours, before once again vanishing from his crib without a trace. Rumors start to circulate through Carrie's small town. Whispers that she's seeing things. That her alibi doesn't quite add up.

Her husband and friends start to think she's crazy. The police start to think she's guilty. As the investigation heats up, Carrie must decide what to share, and why. Because the crime is about to be solved... and her secret revealed.

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Excerpt

Carrie Morgan’s kidnapped son came back while she was at church.
Later, when she told a few fellow Episcopalians in Bronwyn, Pennsylvania, about this miracle – and she would, eventually, be brave enough to tell the whole story to a few new friends -–they would point to this salient fact, gently, insisting it was the lynchpin. The cause, the effect. As if her faith had conjured a delicate simulacrum of her baby, truly ephemeral, wafer-thin. She was taken aback by their steadfast view, the quietest version of fervor she’d ever witnessed. Most of the WASPs she knew -- her mother, her in-laws – seemed able to take or leave their religion, abandoning it in favor of science, suspending church attendance for golf season. Or, as her Gran used to say, as income rises, faith falls. Indeed, when she pressed her own husband, John, asking him with tears in her eyes how he could have been an acolyte, how he could have been vice president of his youth group and not believed in what they both had seen with their own eyes, he had blinked at her and said: Religion was sort of something we did, not something we believed. An activity, a sport. A club. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

1. For Carrie, one of the most frustrating recurrences in the book is the unwillingness of her family and friends to believe that she has been visited by the dead. Have you ever had a supernatural experience? How did others react to your description of it?

2. To what extent does their religious faith and upbringing drive Carrie and John? Does it support their actions and reactions, or conflict?

3. How does Carrie’s past influence her relationship with John, and her choice of John as a husband? Do you think Ethan was a better match for her?

4. John and Carrie have very different ways of grieving their son’s kidnapping. Which do you relate to more?

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