I absolutely loved this book. It was so well written. I loved the characters and the atmosphere.

Charlie is a writer who is immersed in her grief after her son dies unexpectedly. The grief is palpable in the book. This subject matter is usually not what I'd want to read because it's hard as a mother, but the pain and grief was well written and not dwelled on, or overly graphic. Charlie needs to get out of her fog of sadness and so she takes a job to write a book about a southern family in Louisiana that lives on a plantation and 30 years ago, their toddler was kidnapped and never found. So Charlie stays at the plantation and gets to know the family while researching the book.

I don't want to give much more away but I will say that I stayed up way too late many nights because I couldn't put the book down. I am also very excited there are more books in the series!