The Last Thing He Told Me

Owen Michaels has been gone only a few hours when the note reaches his wife of just over a year, Hannah Hall: two words, "Protect her." The "her" is Bailey, Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, who has never wanted a stepmother and wants one even less now.

As Owen vanishes, the pieces of the life he built start to come apart. The FBI arrests his boss at the tech company where he worked, US marshals turn up at the family's Sausalito houseboat, and Hannah realizes that almost nothing she knew about her husband, his past, even his name, may be true. With no one else to trust, she and the prickly, grieving Bailey set out to reconstruct who Owen really was and why he ran.

Laura Dave's bestselling domestic thriller is a fast, twisty story about marriage, secrets, and the unexpected family that forms between a reluctant stepmother and daughter.