What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonizing: you keep loving him somehow.
Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda’s mother, once Thea’s good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter’s memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbours, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn away.
Meanwhile, Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been; at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover—especially about the night Belinda died? (less)
💭My review 🐻
This was my first book by Jacquelyn Mitchard. For the most part, I enjoyed this book. Jacquelyn puts so many details into this story, she really wants you to get the backstory and everything that is going on around. Which makes it kinda long and drawn out but it’s worth it for the storyline. Her writing is absolutely fabulous and this is an awesome thriller.
Thanks to Netgalley and HARLEQUIN for this incredible ARC in exchange for my honest review!
I give it 5 stars
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