My daughter was murdered by my husband. Now I have a new little girl to look after. I have no idea who she is.

It’s been five years since my daughter was killed. It still hurts every day. I’ll never be over it but I am finally moving on with my life.

It’s pitch black when I wake up. I hear a child screaming outside. There’s a little girl in my back yard. She can’t be older than five. She has terrified blue eyes.

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Somebody has left her here. When nobody claims her, I take her in. After all, I’m a professional foster parent. I will look after her like she’s my own child. But she won’t even tell me her name.

I have no idea who I’ve brought into my house.

My Review

This was such a fast paced, exciting read. I literally couldn’t put it down. There were so many twists, so many characters, plus all the foster children then and now, that I had to keep taking a deep breath to keep up for fear of hyperventilating!

It’s been five years since Kat’s daughter Marisol was murdered. Her husband Tyler was convicted and sent to prison, but new evidence has come to light and he could be innocent.

Kat’s mum and dad were foster parents, but when her mum died, her dad had his licence revoked, so Kat took over. All the brothers and sisters were grown up and had left apart from Evie who ran away. Then there was Naomi, who hated everyone and everything, but especially Kat – the only ‘bio’ kid.

Kat’s dad Joe, a weatherman on TV, has also died and Kat has returned to her childhood home for the funeral. It’s just like she remembers, all the kids having a profile on the ‘Hearth Wall’.

But it’s not long before things start to take a sinister turn. Notes accusing her dad of stuff, threatening Kat, etc. Kat starts to suspect everyone. And then a child, around five years of age, is trapped in the holly bush in the garden, screaming. Kat manages to get her out, but there is no-one to take her in at the moment, so she offers. She still has her fostering licence. She calls the child Holly. Everyone says she looks just like Marisol.

Towards the end I became suspicious of one or two people (one turned out to be correct) but had no idea why. What would be their motive? And what about Joe? Please not another lovely dad turns into pedo scenario. By this point I had no idea, I just had to get to the end. And everything was turned on its head. A perfect example of how to keep the readers on their toes from start to finish. Brilliant!

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Sonya Bateman is an award-winning copywriter and novelist, a mid-eighties to late- nineties fantasy movie enthusiast, coffee hoarder, and collector of cool rocks who spent a not-insignificant portion of her childhood climbing trees in order to read books in peace. She grew up in Central New York, where the seasons are Winter and Road Construction and “not the city” is officially part of everyone’s address. Sonya has been writing professionally for more than 15 years. She currently lives in a big house in a little city, still in Central New York (not the city), with her husband, son, and feline overlords. She writes fast-paced urban fantasy and twisty, shocking psychological fiction that may leave you suspicious of your friends and neighbours—and sleeping with the lights on.

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