A mother built an empire from her loss. Now her child’s return threatens to bring it all down.

 

Twenty-two years after her infant was kidnapped during a crowded Halloween parade, Verna Moth has rebuilt her life around control: of her grief, her public image, and the multimillion-dollar infant security company she founded in her child’s memory.

 

During a keynote speech, a detective delivers unthinkable news: her missing baby has been found alive. And he's just been arrested for murder.

 

As evidence mounts and her board begins to question her leadership, Verna makes the impossible decision to call the ex-husband she hasn't spoken to in decades. Their reunion forces Verna to confront not only the love she thought she buried, but the life they lost, and the version of herself grief demanded she become.

 

When Verna secretly pays her son's bail, she folds him into her meticulously controlled world. But as long-buried truths about his kidnapping surface, so do unsettling questions about who he has become.

 

As his trial looms and media scrutiny intensifies, Verna must decide what she's willing to destroy—her company, her reputation, even the truth itself—to protect the son she refuses to lose a second time.​

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