Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident…until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon.

Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick's death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for the truth. Who would have wanted Nick dead? And, more important, why? Clara will stop at nothing to find out—and the truth is only the beginning of this twisted tale of secrets and deceit.

told from the alternating perspective of Clara and Nick. I had a hard time liking these characters especially Clara. she just seemed to go off the deep end and imagine so much. However who knows how we would react in the same circumstances. So would make for an interesting book club discussion.

What started out as a good basis for a mystery ended up as flat as my hair on a humid day. The story line had potential and the bones to build a good who-done-it, but it was all hype and no fizz.
I couldn't even bring myself to like any of the characters and I kept wanting to reach into the page and slap some sense into the new mother/now widow.

Nick and Clara are the parents of a 4-year old daughter, Maise, and Clara has just given birth to their second child, a son named Felix. Nick and Clara have put every penny they owned into Nick's dental practice and it becomes apparent pretty quick in the story that the business is failing. Nick hasn't been truthful with Clara about their financial plight and the point of reckoning is fast upon him. Nick offers to take Maise to her ballet lesson to give Clara and baby Felix some alone time but on the way home, on a winding country road, Nick's car runs off the road and into a tree, killing Nick instantly and leaving Maise with only a few scratches and a great deal of fear and anxiety.

Told in alternating chapters (Clara then, Nick then, Clara now), you follow the downfall of Nick's career and finances, the police's theory that Nick was driving too fast and merely lost control of the car and Clara's conviction that someone ran Nick off the road. Like I said, there was promise with many potential suspects, but the ending just made me feel like I wasted my time with a story that went nowhere. I was mad at the author before the story ever ended for creating a character who would not only lose her husband and NOT tell her daughter that her father was dead and lead her to believe Daddy would be coming home any day, but actually asked the reader to believe that any mother would stoop so low as to do that. Clara's parents, while upset that their granddaughter was being lied to, never intervened nor did any of Clara's friends.

Don't let me discourage you from reading it - others seemed to have liked it. For me, it fell WAY short of being believable and even shorter on plot.