Something terrible has happened here, and I’m too late. “Let her be breathing.” I sniffle and inhale the truth through the rotting leaves. “Please,” I beg the starlit sky peeking through the trees. All these years working with at-risk young women, and I couldn’t see that Finn was dating one. “Yazmin?” I shine my phone’s light in her direction, but I’m stopped by the certain hint of marijuana. The wetness soaks through the holes in my jeans, settling into my bare kneecaps, ice on bone. My eyes water as I kneel beside Yazmin Veltri, a girl I’ve known for only the briefest period.
“Oh God.” I open my mouth and let out a strangled breath, so sick that I sway to the side. His speech was slurred, and his girlfriend is. I need to find Finn.” Martin’s voice fades into the forest, and all I want to do is follow him, but I just spoke to my son on the phone. “I d-don’t know,” I sputter, still shocked we found her and not Finn when we parked the car and hiked the rest of the way into Sewickley Heights Park. We’re somewhere off Fern Hollow Road, the closest turnoff to Finn’s pinned iPhone location. I stumble, disoriented under the canopy of trees. I turn my head to find him, but it’s too dark. It’s dangling behind my back because I had nowhere else to put it while examining the body. Purchase Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads Read an excerpt:Ĭhapter 1I reach for my phone inside my purse slung around my neck. “An unsparing account of ‘rich people problems’ that goes on forever, like all the best nightmares.” -Kirkus Reviews As each troubling event unfolds, Sarah must decide how far she’ll go to save her perfect life.
Even the secrets of the old house she lives in seem to be connected to the incident. Finn’s lies to the authorities are too comfortable, too proficient, not to arouse her suspicions. Convinced he’s innocent, Sarah and Martin agree to protect their son at any cost and not report the crime.īut there are things Sarah finds hard to reconcile: a cover-up by Martin’s family that’s so unnervingly cold-blooded. Until…A call for help in the middle of the night leads Sarah and Martin to the woods, where they find Finn, injured, dazed, and weeping near his girlfriend’s dead body. And Finn, a teenage son with so much promise.
Living in a historic mansion in Pennsylvania’s most exclusive borough. Marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Martin. What did her son do in the woods last night? Does a mother really want to know?
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