Night She Went Missing

Emily Wilson, a bookish scholarship-caliber senior at an elite school on the Texas Gulf Coast, disappears after a night out with friends. The last person she was seen with is Alex Frank, a football player with a reputation. Nobody in the tight-knit, wealthy community wants to say more than that.

Months later a student is found floating in the harbor, alive but unconscious, and the case cracks open again. Catherine, Leslie and Morgan — three mothers whose friendship has curdled into something warier — begin looking for answers the police have given up on. Each of them has something to protect, and every thread leads back to their own children.

Kristen Bird's debut is a domestic suspense about privilege, complicity, and how far a parent will go to keep a story from being told.