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Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Eighteen years ago, Evelyn Shaw lied about what happened to Julian Cross.Now a ten-year-old boy remembers the night she has spent her entire life trying to forget.Dr. Evelyn Shaw has built her career helping people understand trauma, memory, and the stories the mind creates to survive.Then Noah Mercer walks into her office.He is ten years old. Quiet. Intelligent. Troubled by violent nightmares his mother cannot explain.At first, Evelyn sees nothing unusual.Until Noah begins describing a place he has never visited.An abandoned estate.A burned greenhouse.A hidden door.A teenage boy covered in blood.Then he says the dead boy's name.Julian Cross.Evelyn hasn't heard that name spoken aloud in eighteen years.Julian's death was ruled an accident. Evelyn told the police she had left before it happened.That was the first lie.But Noah knows things that were never released to the public.He knows what Julian said that night.He knows where something was hidden beneath the floor.And most terrifying of all.he remembers Evelyn standing beside the body.Determined to discover how a child born years after Julian's death could know the details of her darkest secret, Evelyn begins investigating Noah's past.What she finds leads her back to Bellweather-the place where everything began.Old recordings.Missing medical records.An experimental memory clinic.A father who refuses to tell the truth.A mother who was somewhere she swore she had never been.And evidence suggesting Evelyn's memories of that night may not belong entirely to her.Soon, one horrifying possibility becomes impossible to ignore: Maybe Evelyn didn't forget what happened.Maybe someone taught her to remember it differently.But Noah has a secret of his own.Because everyone assumes the crime he remembers happened eighteen years ago.They're wrong.And when Evelyn finally understands which crime the boy actually witnessed, the truth threatens to destroy not only everything she believes about Julian's death.but everything she believes about herself.The Boy Who Remembers My Crime is a dark, emotional psychological thriller about memory, guilt, childhood trauma, family loyalty, manipulation, and the terrible things people can justify in the name of protection.Perfect for readers who enjoy unreliable memories, cold cases, psychological suspense, disturbing family secrets, morally complicated characters, child witnesses, hidden experiments, and twists that completely change the meaning of what came before.He remembers the crime.She remembers committing it.Neither of them remembers the same one.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Eleven years ago, Mara Vale buried her daughter.At least, that is what she remembers.Then the phone rings.A woman from a psychiatric clinic tells Mara that a young patient has been admitted to Room 17. The patient is frightened, unstable, and refusing to speak to anyone.Except Mara.There is only one problem.The patient claims to be her daughter.Mara knows it cannot be true. She remembers the funeral. She remembers the coffin. She remembers learning how to survive the unbearable silence that followed.But when she enters Room 17, the young woman waiting for her knows things no stranger should know.A childhood phrase.A forgotten hiding place.A song Mara hasn't heard in eleven years.And details about the night her daughter died that Mara has never told another living soul.Determined to expose the woman as an impostor, Mara begins searching through the pieces of a past she thought she understood.Instead, she discovers missing records, altered memories, old photographs that don't make sense, people who refuse to answer simple questions-and evidence suggesting that the story she has believed for eleven years may never have been true.Soon, Mara is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: What if the woman in Room 17 isn't lying And an even worse one: What if Mara is As buried memories begin to surface and the people closest to her reveal secrets of their own, Mara realizes that discovering who survived that night is only the beginning.Because someone has spent eleven years making sure she remembers the wrong daughter.And they are not finished with her yet.The Daughter in Room 17 is an emotional psychological thriller about grief, memory, motherhood, manipulation, and the devastating difference between what happened-and what we need to believe happened.Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, dark family secrets, psychological suspense, emotionally complex characters, hidden identities, and twists that change everything you thought you knew.Some memories disappear because time takes them.Others disappear because someone needs them gone.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - My sister died twelve years ago.Yesterday, I buried her again.Mara Ellison knows what grief feels like.At nineteen, she stood beside a grave and watched her younger sister, Lena, disappear beneath the earth.She mourned her.She blamed herself.And eventually, she learned how to live without her.Then, twelve years later, Mara receives a phone call that should be impossible.Lena Ellison is dead.Again.The woman found dead after falling from the balcony of the Northmere Hotel has Lena's name. Lena's face. Lena's childhood scar.And around her neck is a necklace Mara placed inside her sister's coffin twelve years earlier.Suddenly, everything Mara believed about the first death begins to collapse.When the original grave is reopened, the truth becomes even more disturbing.The woman buried there was never Lena.Someone helped Mara's sister disappear.Someone convinced an entire family that she was dead.And for twelve years, Lena was secretly watching Mara from a distance.But Lena left something behind.Photographs.Therapy recordings.Hidden journals.And a warning: Mara already killed her once.She might do it again.As Detective Elias Venn reopens both deaths, Mara is forced back into the darkest years of her childhood-a controlling mother, a dead father, a psychiatrist obsessed with memory, and therapy sessions Mara barely remembers.Then another impossible truth emerges.There weren't two Ellison sisters.There were three.And someone made Mara forget one of them.Now Mara can no longer trust her memories of her sister's first death.She cannot trust her family.She cannot even trust the confession recorded in her own voice.Because the deeper she investigates, the more terrifying the question becomes: If Lena survived the first time. who made sure she didn't survive the second And why does the evidence keep pointing back to Mara My Sister Died Twice is a dark psychological thriller about sisterhood, manipulated memory, buried identities, family secrets, guilt, and the devastating difference between what we remember and what actually happened.Perfect for readers who love unreliable narrators, dysfunctional families, hidden identities, cold cases, psychological manipulation, sister mysteries, and twists that force you to question everything that came before.The first time my sister died, we buried a stranger.The second time, we buried the truth.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Every night, I wake at exactly 2:17 a.m.Then someone knocks three times from inside my bedroom wall.Mara Voss came to Wren Street for a fresh start.A new house.A new life.A safe place for her and her twelve-year-old daughter, Ivy.Then the knocking begins.Three knocks.Always at exactly 2:17 a.m.At first, Mara blames the pipes. The old house. Her imagination.Until she discovers an unplugged alarm clock hidden in the attic.Its display is frozen at: 2:17.Then she learns about Celia Ward.The woman who lived in the house before her.The woman who disappeared without explanation eleven years ago.And the woman standing beside Mara in an old photograph.even though Mara has no memory of ever meeting her.Soon, impossible pieces of Mara's past begin appearing throughout the house.A red marble hidden inside a wall.A basement door that shouldn't exist.A cassette recording of two teenage girls.And one of the voices belongs to Mara.On the recording, she makes a promise: Never tell anyone what happened at 2:17.But Mara doesn't remember making it.She doesn't remember Celia.And when she investigates her childhood, she discovers something even more disturbing.An entire year of her life is missing.Then Ivy hears the knocking too.Except Ivy insists it isn't coming from the wall.It's coming from underneath the floor.Behind a sealed section of the basement, Mara uncovers evidence of an experimental sleep study run decades earlier by her own father-a respected researcher who believed memories could be altered by waking subjects at precisely controlled times.The signal for each session Three knocks.The time 2:17 a.m.Now someone is repeating the experiment.Mara's cameras mysteriously fail every night at 2:16.Objects from her childhood begin appearing inside the house.And someone leaves a message meant only for her: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO FORGET.To protect Ivy, Mara must reconstruct the night seventeen years ago when a basement caught fire, a teenage boy disappeared, and Celia Ward escaped with a secret powerful enough to destroy everything Mara believed about her family.But the closer Mara gets to remembering, the more terrifying the truth becomes.Because she wasn't simply a victim of what happened in that house.She helped create it.And the person waking her every night may not be trying to frighten her.They may be trying to save her.Every Night at 2:17 is a dark psychological thriller about manipulated memory, childhood secrets, an isolated house, dangerous experiments, and the terrifying things the mind can bury in order to survive.Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, mysterious houses, psychological experiments, buried family secrets, missing people, eerie late-night mysteries, and twists that completely change the meaning of everything that came before.Every night at 2:17, someone knocks three times.Tonight, I'm finally going to answer.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Fifteen years ago, there were four of us.By morning, a girl had disappeared.We agreed never to tell anyone what really happened.Nora Keene hasn't returned to Hollowmere House since she was seventeen.She never planned to.Then an unsigned invitation arrives.COME BACK TO HOLLOWMERE.ALL FOUR OF YOU.Exactly fifteen years after the night that destroyed their friendship, Nora returns to the abandoned house beside the reservoir.Elise is already there.So is Daniel.But Callum-the fourth member of their once-inseparable group-never arrives.Then Nora finds a photograph waiting on the dining-room table.It was taken that afternoon.And somehow.all four of them are standing in it.Outside, a storm has cut them off from the road. The gate has been chained. Their phones have no signal.Inside the house, someone has prepared five glasses.Because Hollowmere has always been about more than four people.Fifteen years earlier, a local girl named Beth Rowan came to the house.By midnight, she had vanished.The four friends told police Beth was never there.That was their first lie.Now someone knows.A cassette begins playing Callum's voice.Beth's missing bracelet appears beneath a floorboard.An old photograph reveals someone standing where nobody remembers them being.And each friend tells a different version of what happened that night.Nora remembers Beth arriving furious.Elise remembers Beth following Daniel.Daniel remembers Callum threatening them into silence.And Callum.Callum may have been lying for fifteen years.But when evidence begins pointing toward Nora's own father, the mystery becomes far more disturbing than a teenage secret.Because Nora's memories of Hollowmere may not simply be incomplete.Someone may have taught her what to remember.And the closer the group gets to reconstructing that night, the more one terrifying possibility emerges: Maybe Beth didn't die.Maybe the person they have spent fifteen years trying to protect was never the victim.And maybe there were never only four of them at all.There Were Four of Us is a dark psychological thriller about friendship, guilt, manipulated memory, a missing girl, an isolated house, and the devastating consequences of a secret shared for fifteen years.Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, old-friend reunions, missing-person mysteries, isolated settings, buried family secrets, psychological manipulation, multiple suspects, and twists that completely change what you thought you knew.There were four of us that night.At least, that's what they taught me to remember.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - I came home expecting my son to run into my arms.Instead, he ran to another woman.And called her Mom.After six months away caring for her dying father, Leah Mercer finally returns home.She has survived grief, exhaustion, and months of separation from the person she loves most-her eight-year-old son, Oliver.But when she waits outside his school, Oliver doesn't run toward her.He runs past her.Straight into the arms of a woman Leah has never seen before.Then he looks at Leah with fear in his eyes and whispers: 'My mom said you might come.'The stranger introduces herself as Rachel Mercer.She has Leah's address.Her family photographs.Her son's school records.And identification proving that she is Oliver's mother.When Leah tries to enter her own house, her key no longer works.The neighbors recognize Rachel.The school recognizes Rachel.Even Oliver insists Rachel has always been his mother.Then Leah hears a man's voice inside the house.A voice she would recognize anywhere.Her husband Adam.There's only one problem.Adam died three years ago.Desperate to prove who she is, Leah begins investigating her own life.What she discovers is impossible to explain.Her son's birth certificate lists another mother.Family photographs have been altered.Her father's final papers contain the name of a mysterious psychiatrist.And buried inside her own medical history are six months of treatment Leah has absolutely no memory of receiving.Then she discovers an old photograph.Leah is holding newborn Oliver.But the hospital bracelet around her wrist doesn't say Leah Mercer.It says: Hannah Ward.A woman officially declared dead nine years ago.Suddenly, the question is no longer why another woman has stolen Leah's life.It's whether Leah Mercer ever existed at all.And when Leah finally discovers why Oliver remembers Rachel as his mother, the truth becomes even more terrifying.Because Rachel may not be the person who created the lie.She may be trapped inside it too.Someone has rewritten a family.Changed official records.Manipulated memories.And prepared for the exact moment Leah would come home demanding her son back.But whoever created this new reality made one mistake.Leah remembers something she was never supposed to remember.The nursery.The Woman My Son Calls Mom is a dark psychological thriller about motherhood, identity, manipulated memory, grief, family secrets, and the terrifying question of how much of our lives depends on other people agreeing that our memories are real.Perfect for readers who love domestic psychological thrillers, identity mysteries, unreliable memories, family secrets, impostors, emotional suspense, morally complicated characters, and shocking twists.Another woman has my house.My name.My family.And now my son calls her Mom.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. My sister has been dead for twelve years.Last night, she sent me a message.Dr. Evelyn Hart has built her career studying one uncomfortable truth: Memory cannot always be trusted.But Evelyn trusts her own.She remembers her younger sister Mara dying in a terrible car accident twelve years ago.She remembers identifying the body.She remembers the funeral.She remembers learning how to live without her.Then one evening, Evelyn comes home and finds a note waiting beneath her coffee mug.The handwriting is unmistakable.Her own.Four words are written across the page: I KNOW WHAT YOU FORGOT.Evelyn has no memory of writing them.The next day, an anonymous envelope arrives.Inside is a recent photograph of a woman entering an abandoned psychiatric clinic.The woman is older now.Her hair is different.But Evelyn would recognize her anywhere.It's Mara.Desperate for answers, Evelyn reopens the investigation into her sister's death.Almost immediately, the official story begins falling apart.There was no DNA identification.The body was cremated.The ashes cannot prove who died.And hidden inside the records of the abandoned St. Agnes Memory Clinic is something Evelyn was never supposed to find.A patient file bearing her own birthday.A treatment room she recognizes from nightmares.Two chairs.Old recordings.And a label: HART SISTERS - SESSION 14Evelyn has spent years believing she became a memory researcher because she wanted to understand the human mind.But she was studying memory long before she became a scientist.She was the experiment.As fragments of her childhood begin returning, Evelyn discovers that Mara's death may not be the first thing she was made to forget.Their father's death wasn't what she remembers.Their mother has been lying for decades.And the respected scientist who became Evelyn's mentor may have been controlling her memories since she was a teenager.Then Evelyn receives a recording.It's Mara's voice.And she says something impossible: "If you're hearing this, they made you forget me twice."Now Evelyn must find out whether her sister survived.But every new memory creates another problem.Because someone has been entering Evelyn's home at night.Her security cameras mysteriously lose exactly sixty-three minutes.Medication appears in her bloodstream.And the person leaving warnings inside her house.may be Evelyn herself.Someone knows what happened at St. Agnes.Someone knows why Mara disappeared.And someone knows exactly what Evelyn was made to forget.But the most dangerous truth isn't that Evelyn's memories were changed.It's that years ago, terrified by what she knew.Evelyn may have asked them to do it.I Know What You Forgot is a dark psychological thriller about two sisters, manipulated memory, experimental therapy, family secrets, identity, guilt, and the terrifying difference between what happened and what we remember happening.Perfect for readers who love missing-person mysteries, unreliable memories, psychological experiments, secret institutions, complicated sisters, dark family secrets, emotional suspense, and twist-filled psychological thrillers.Someone changed my memories.My sister knows why.The problem is. I remember burying her. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Eleven years ago, Mara Vale buried her daughter.At least, that is what she remembers.Then the phone rings.A woman from a psychiatric clinic tells Mara that a young patient has been admitted to Room 17. The patient is frightened, unstable, and refusing to speak to anyone.Except Mara.There is only one problem.The patient claims to be her daughter.Mara knows it cannot be true. She remembers the funeral. She remembers the coffin. She remembers learning how to survive the unbearable silence that followed.But when she enters Room 17, the young woman waiting for her knows things no stranger should know.A childhood phrase.A forgotten hiding place.A song Mara hasn't heard in eleven years.And details about the night her daughter died that Mara has never told another living soul.Determined to expose the woman as an impostor, Mara begins searching through the pieces of a past she thought she understood.Instead, she discovers missing records, altered memories, old photographs that don't make sense, people who refuse to answer simple questions-and evidence suggesting that the story she has believed for eleven years may never have been true.Soon, Mara is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: What if the woman in Room 17 isn't lying?And an even worse one: What if Mara is?As buried memories begin to surface and the people closest to her reveal secrets of their own, Mara realizes that discovering who survived that night is only the beginning.Because someone has spent eleven years making sure she remembers the wrong daughter.And they are not finished with her yet.The Daughter in Room 17 is an emotional psychological thriller about grief, memory, motherhood, manipulation, and the devastating difference between what happened-and what we need to believe happened.Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, dark family secrets, psychological suspense, emotionally complex characters, hidden identities, and twists that change everything you thought you knew.Some memories disappear because time takes them.Others disappear because someone needs them gone. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Every night, I wake at exactly 2:17 a.m.Then someone knocks three times from inside my bedroom wall.Mara Voss came to Wren Street for a fresh start.A new house.A new life.A safe place for her and her twelve-year-old daughter, Ivy.Then the knocking begins.Three knocks.Always at exactly 2:17 a.m.At first, Mara blames the pipes. The old house. Her imagination.Until she discovers an unplugged alarm clock hidden in the attic.Its display is frozen at: 2:17.Then she learns about Celia Ward.The woman who lived in the house before her.The woman who disappeared without explanation eleven years ago.And the woman standing beside Mara in an old photograph.even though Mara has no memory of ever meeting her.Soon, impossible pieces of Mara's past begin appearing throughout the house.A red marble hidden inside a wall.A basement door that shouldn't exist.A cassette recording of two teenage girls.And one of the voices belongs to Mara.On the recording, she makes a promise: Never tell anyone what happened at 2:17.But Mara doesn't remember making it.She doesn't remember Celia.And when she investigates her childhood, she discovers something even more disturbing.An entire year of her life is missing.Then Ivy hears the knocking too.Except Ivy insists it isn't coming from the wall.It's coming from underneath the floor.Behind a sealed section of the basement, Mara uncovers evidence of an experimental sleep study run decades earlier by her own father-a respected researcher who believed memories could be altered by waking subjects at precisely controlled times.The signal for each session?Three knocks.The time?2:17 a.m.Now someone is repeating the experiment.Mara's cameras mysteriously fail every night at 2:16.Objects from her childhood begin appearing inside the house.And someone leaves a message meant only for her: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO FORGET.To protect Ivy, Mara must reconstruct the night seventeen years ago when a basement caught fire, a teenage boy disappeared, and Celia Ward escaped with a secret powerful enough to destroy everything Mara believed about her family.But the closer Mara gets to remembering, the more terrifying the truth becomes.Because she wasn't simply a victim of what happened in that house.She helped create it.And the person waking her every night may not be trying to frighten her.They may be trying to save her.Every Night at 2:17 is a dark psychological thriller about manipulated memory, childhood secrets, an isolated house, dangerous experiments, and the terrifying things the mind can bury in order to survive.Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, mysterious houses, psychological experiments, buried family secrets, missing people, eerie late-night mysteries, and twists that completely change the meaning of everything that came before.Every night at 2:17, someone knocks three times.Tonight, I'm finally going to answer. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. My sister has been dead for fourteen years.So why does my mother still set a place for her at Sunday dinner?Every Sunday, Claire Bell returns to her parents' house for the same family ritual.The same table.The same meal.The same careful conversations about everything except the one person nobody wants to mention.Emily.Claire's seventeen-year-old sister disappeared fourteen years ago.She was never found.Eventually, she was declared dead.The family grieved.They moved on.Or at least Claire thought they had.Until one Sunday evening, she notices something different.Five places have been set at the table.There are only four people coming to dinner.When Claire reaches for the extra chair, her mother grabs her wrist."Don't move it."Claire asks why.Her mother's answer makes the room go silent."She'll need somewhere to sit when she comes home."Then Claire sees what is lying beneath the empty plate.A photograph.It shows Emily.Not the seventeen-year-old girl who disappeared.A grown woman.Standing outside Claire's house.And the photograph was taken three days ago.Claire's first instinct is that someone is playing a cruel game.Until she notices her husband Mark staring at the photograph.He recognizes the woman.And he's terrified.Because Mark knows something Claire doesn't.Emily may never have died.Soon Claire discovers a letter written in her sister's handwriting.It contains only one message: Mom, I am not dead.Please stop telling Claire that I am.Suddenly, fourteen years of grief begin to unravel.The police investigation.The night Emily disappeared.The argument nobody talks about.A hit-and-run that happened days earlier.A damaged red car.Secret payments.Hidden letters.And a promise Claire's own husband made long before he married her.Everyone in the Bell family has been protecting a secret.But they haven't all been protecting the same secret.And when Emily finally comes home, Claire discovers something even more devastating.Her sister didn't disappear because she wanted to leave her family.She disappeared because she was afraid of them.Now the empty chair at their table is waiting for the woman everyone agreed to mourn.But Emily isn't coming home for forgiveness.She's coming home to tell the truth.And one member of the family will do anything to keep that chair empty.The Empty Chair at Our Table is an emotional psychological thriller about two sisters, a family built around a fourteen-year-old lie, buried guilt, betrayal, marriage, memory, and the devastating difference between protecting someone and protecting a secret.Perfect for readers who love missing-person mysteries, dysfunctional families, long-buried secrets, complicated sisters, domestic suspense, emotional psychological thrillers, and twists that change everything you thought you knew.For fourteen years, we kept an empty chair at our table.Tonight, the woman it belongs to is coming home. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Fifteen years ago, there were four of us.By morning, a girl had disappeared.We agreed never to tell anyone what really happened.Nora Keene hasn't returned to Hollowmere House since she was seventeen.She never planned to.Then an unsigned invitation arrives.COME BACK TO HOLLOWMERE.ALL FOUR OF YOU.Exactly fifteen years after the night that destroyed their friendship, Nora returns to the abandoned house beside the reservoir.Elise is already there.So is Daniel.But Callum-the fourth member of their once-inseparable group-never arrives.Then Nora finds a photograph waiting on the dining-room table.It was taken that afternoon.And somehow.all four of them are standing in it.Outside, a storm has cut them off from the road. The gate has been chained. Their phones have no signal.Inside the house, someone has prepared five glasses.Because Hollowmere has always been about more than four people.Fifteen years earlier, a local girl named Beth Rowan came to the house.By midnight, she had vanished.The four friends told police Beth was never there.That was their first lie.Now someone knows.A cassette begins playing Callum's voice.Beth's missing bracelet appears beneath a floorboard.An old photograph reveals someone standing where nobody remembers them being.And each friend tells a different version of what happened that night.Nora remembers Beth arriving furious.Elise remembers Beth following Daniel.Daniel remembers Callum threatening them into silence.And Callum.Callum may have been lying for fifteen years.But when evidence begins pointing toward Nora's own father, the mystery becomes far more disturbing than a teenage secret.Because Nora's memories of Hollowmere may not simply be incomplete.Someone may have taught her what to remember.And the closer the group gets to reconstructing that night, the more one terrifying possibility emerges: Maybe Beth didn't die.Maybe the person they have spent fifteen years trying to protect was never the victim.And maybe there were never only four of them at all.There Were Four of Us is a dark psychological thriller about friendship, guilt, manipulated memory, a missing girl, an isolated house, and the devastating consequences of a secret shared for fifteen years.Perfect for readers who love unreliable memories, old-friend reunions, missing-person mysteries, isolated settings, buried family secrets, psychological manipulation, multiple suspects, and twists that completely change what you thought you knew.There were four of us that night.At least, that's what they taught me to remember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. I came home expecting my son to run into my arms.Instead, he ran to another woman.And called her Mom.After six months away caring for her dying father, Leah Mercer finally returns home.She has survived grief, exhaustion, and months of separation from the person she loves most-her eight-year-old son, Oliver.But when she waits outside his school, Oliver doesn't run toward her.He runs past her.Straight into the arms of a woman Leah has never seen before.Then he looks at Leah with fear in his eyes and whispers: "My mom said you might come."The stranger introduces herself as Rachel Mercer.She has Leah's address.Her family photographs.Her son's school records.And identification proving that she is Oliver's mother.When Leah tries to enter her own house, her key no longer works.The neighbors recognize Rachel.The school recognizes Rachel.Even Oliver insists Rachel has always been his mother.Then Leah hears a man's voice inside the house.A voice she would recognize anywhere.Her husband Adam.There's only one problem.Adam died three years ago.Desperate to prove who she is, Leah begins investigating her own life.What she discovers is impossible to explain.Her son's birth certificate lists another mother.Family photographs have been altered.Her father's final papers contain the name of a mysterious psychiatrist.And buried inside her own medical history are six months of treatment Leah has absolutely no memory of receiving.Then she discovers an old photograph.Leah is holding newborn Oliver.But the hospital bracelet around her wrist doesn't say Leah Mercer.It says: Hannah Ward.A woman officially declared dead nine years ago.Suddenly, the question is no longer why another woman has stolen Leah's life.It's whether Leah Mercer ever existed at all.And when Leah finally discovers why Oliver remembers Rachel as his mother, the truth becomes even more terrifying.Because Rachel may not be the person who created the lie.She may be trapped inside it too.Someone has rewritten a family.Changed official records.Manipulated memories.And prepared for the exact moment Leah would come home demanding her son back.But whoever created this new reality made one mistake.Leah remembers something she was never supposed to remember.The nursery.The Woman My Son Calls Mom is a dark psychological thriller about motherhood, identity, manipulated memory, grief, family secrets, and the terrifying question of how much of our lives depends on other people agreeing that our memories are real.Perfect for readers who love domestic psychological thrillers, identity mysteries, unreliable memories, family secrets, impostors, emotional suspense, morally complicated characters, and shocking twists.Another woman has my house.My name.My family.And now my son calls her Mom. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…