Claire Scott

Claire Scott is a thirty-something woman living in the suburbs outside of Atlanta with her husband, Paul Scott. Claire is currently a glamorous trophy wife, volunteering her time among various charitable organizations. She has spent six months on probation for a vicious tennis assault on her doubles partner, a widespread scandal across her upper-crust circle.

More than 20 years ago, Claire and her sister Lydia's teenaged sister Julia disappeared, and the two women have not spoken since this heartbreaking loss. The disappearance of another teenage girl along with the suspicious murder of her husband leads Claire down the path of discovery about her husband's involvement both in her sister's murder and the tragic events that befell the other teenaged girl, Anna Kilpatrick.

Throughout the novel, Claire morphs from a woman who has not cared to take any interest in her own life into a woman who begins to...