Lauren North shocked readers with her brilliant debut. Tense, with an explosive ending, this thriller evokes a genuine sense of fear and anxiety for the main characters. This emotional, powerful and exciting story makes you feverishly turn the pages and wonder: who can you trust? After the death of her husband in a terrible accident, Tess Clark lives only for the sake of her son Jamie. They are trying to learn to enjoy simple things again - watching cartoons together, walking to school and good weather. Living without a husband is hard, but the most important thing is that Tess has a son. The day after Jamie's eighth birthday, Tess wakes up in the hospital with full confidence that someone stabbed her with a knife, her son is missing, and her social psychologist is involved in all this. But no one even wants to listen to her. Frightened and rejected by everyone, Tess must gather her remaining strength into a fist to save her son and restore the chain of events from her husband’s death to Jamie’s birthday. The main thing is that the truth that she learns does not turn out to be unbearable for her...