The instant no. 1 New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, soon to be a major tv series starring Julia Roberts, from the makers of Big Little Lies, a Vogue Best Books to Read in 2021, a Grazia Best Book of 2021, an Amazon Best Book of May 2021, Reader’s Digest 50 Best Books to Read This Year, a Netgalley Book of the Month! – It was the last thing he told me: Protect her. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: Protect her. Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect – his sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As her increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen’s true identity, and why he disappeared. Together they set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again… A beautiful and thrilling mystery, perfect for readers of Lianne Moriarty and Celeste Ng.