Currently, a common gesture between friendship, trust and good neighborliness may be to pick up a friend's child. In fact, when this novel takes off it seems that it is going to move through some intimate terrain around friendship, or love or some of these lighter themes.
Nothing to do, of course, what is advertised as a thriller ends up being exactly that, a domestic thriller where Stephanie finds herself with the custody of her friend Emily's son and without any trace of it. The first feeling is to share that stress to know what could have happened to Emily. While Stephanie tries to keep the boy away from the strange happenings, she begins to look for her where she supposedly should have been. From the outset, the disclosure of the facts to the authorities does not seem to offer results. Sometimes for the police everything is a matter of time and evidence. And in Emily's disappearance they still do not find sufficient grounds for alarm.
The first great twist in the story, the critical moment where everything changes from gray to black, comes upon us when Stephanie manages to get in touch with Sean, Emily's husband. What Sean has to tell her transforms the situation into a scenario where Stephanie finds herself alone and helpless, guarding and guarding a little boy whose mother seems to have swallowed the earth.
The boy wants to know what happens to his mother, no less than Stephanie herself. The path to the truth appears at every step like a gruesome maze of doubts, uncertainties and dark omens. Stephanie regrets having yielded to that favor that has thrown her towards the announced and singular thriller, a fear of an environment that turns from unreality to surprise, with the shadow of danger lurking at every moment. Life as a lie is the best argument to fool any reader.
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