Fragile

In this stunning new stand-alone psychological thriller, Lisa Unger examines the small town secrets exposed when a teenager goes missing in circumstances similar to another young girl's disappearance twenty years before. "But how do you know he didn't hurt her?" Jones asks his wife, Maggie, anguished when their son's girlfriend vanishes. Maggie can hardly believe that her husband, a police officer, suspects Ricky of causing Charlene's disappearance. In trying to reassure him that despite the black clothes and new tattoo, Ricky is his father's son in all the most important ways, she suddenly realizes that might be exactly what Jones fears. What secret is her husband hiding, and has it threatened Charlene's safety and turned Ricky into a suspect? How well does she know her husband? The secrets the community keeps about another girl who went missing twenty years ago threaten everything Maggie holds dear, and though there are plenty of people who want the past to stay buried, she must find out the truth before the lies bring her world tumbling down.