Jillian thought she knew her husband. They’ve been married for twenty years. But she doesn’t know him at all.

Jillian Harper thought moving to the quiet little town in Montana would be the fresh start her family needed. A charming farmhouse, friendly neighbors, and endless open fields — it was supposed to be perfect.

Until the bodies are found.

Buried deep on their land. Hidden for years.

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The police are everywhere. The town is whispering. And Tucker — her devoted husband — is acting . . . strange. He won’t tell her where he was all day. He won’t explain why his phone was off. And worst of all — he won’t meet her eyes.

Jillian knows Tucker is lying. She just doesn’t know why.

But the truth is far worse than she imagined. Because someone left those bodies there. Maybe the real monster isn’t lurking out there in the fields . . . Maybe he’s sleeping in her bed.

My Review

Meet Jillian Harper, who takes the prize for the most naive wife of all time. No matter how many times her husband Tucker disappears and she can’t get hold of him, how many times he lets her and baseball-mad son Ethan down, or she hears him having shady discussions on the phone, she still believes he is innocent of any wrongdoing. Even after decomposing bodies are found in trailers on the land they bought for a pittance, having left protective custody and fled again, she still trusts him. But she can’t ignore the evidence forever.

Agent Meri Amber is a police officer, now working with the FBI. She is investigating the bodies in the trailers who they believe to be the victims of a sex trafficking ring. Meri has a vested interest – her sister disappeared twenty years ago and she is always searching for her. Could her sister be one of the bodies? And how many more bodies have still not been found?

The ‘Red House’ is the stuff of myth and nightmares, but we know it exists, because it’s where Lola lives with ‘Mother’, who hands the girls over to the ‘Lady’ to sell them to the highest bidder. Mother has always protected Lola, who she treats differently from the other girls. Lola has a scar on her face which they both hope will keep her safe as no-one will want her with her disfigurement.

How can Tucker be involved in something so heinous. Something that makes you sick to the stomach. He won’t explain, he just tells Jillian he is keeping her and Ethan ‘safe’, but can she go on believing him? And then there is Becky from her childhood, also missing for twenty years. And who is Old Man Cummins?

This is the kind of book you can’t put down, even though Jillian annoyed me a lot of the time. Poor Ethan is all I can say. I really liked Meri, and Lola’s story was probably my favourite, I so wanted her to get away.

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

About the Author

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author. With 2 million copies of her titles sold world wide, Steena Holmes was named in the Top 20 Women Author to read in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. She continues to write books that deal with issues that touch parents heart, whether it is through her contemporary fiction or psychological suspense novels. 

To find out more about her books and her love for traveling, you can visit her website at http://www.steenaholmes.com 

2012 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK Award for her bestselling novel Finding Emma 
2015 USA BOOK NEWS Award for The Word Game, 
2015 USA BOOK NEWS finalist for The Memory Child.

For softer, sweeter stories with a hint of chocolate, a lot of coffee and communities you want to live in, look for her stories under the name STEENA MARIE.

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