The Keeping

'Hope and humor buoy tales of complicated relationships and old traumas.' - Kirkus Reviews'A book you cannot put down. Filled with suspense, heartache, and love.' - Amazon reviewer'Hel...lo?' she croaked. Her dry throat refused to let her call out. She looked down at her running shoes, still on her feet, dangling an inch or two off the concrete floor. There by her left foot sat a full gallon jug of water with a typed note taped to it. Drink this. Then read the note on the door.Sierra Hart’s senior year in Laketown was supposed to end with cross-country meets and college applications. It ends on October 5th - the day she disappears.While the FBI hunts a kidnapper who left no physical evidence, the Hart family fractures around her absence. Laura, a pediatrician carrying a quiet diagnosis and a secrets of her own. Patrick, newly out of prison and trying to be a better father could be the cause of her abduction. The guy who insists he loves her. The one she wasn’t supposed to know that well. And in the rumors, the interview transcripts, the letters, and the questions her parents will never say out loud, hidden truths begin to surface.When Sierra is eventually released, there are still no answers to who or why. The town has already decided what happened. Her family is a stranger to itself. And a question she cannot ask out loud is waiting on the other side of every doorway: which of the people who searched for her is the one who took her?The truth will arrive in its own time. And when it does, she will face a choice no one else can make for her - about love, about control, about what we owe the people we cannot quite leave behind.Told through journal entries, FBI interviews, handwritten letters, and they college essay she would never finish, The Keeping is a layered domestic suspense about the secrets families keep, the lies that protect us, and the impossible weight of the truth.Captivity has rules. So does love.If you liked A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & the Six or Ashley Audrain’s The Push, this is a book for you.