What Is Mine by Lyn Liao Butler #bookreview

Thank you @GetRedPrBooks/Thomas & Mercer #partner,  for the advanced copy of What Is Mine in exchange for my honest review.

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

Published: February 6, 2024

Summary:

The search for a missing boy entwines the lives of two desperate women. One seeks redemption for her sister; the other will do anything for the love of her life.

Hope Chen and her husband are raising her nine-year-old nephew, Luca, in the wake of his troubled mother’s death. Luca finally has a safe home in a neighborhood where kids play in the streets and nobody locks their doors. Then one day, Luca and his dog disappear without a trace. Guilt-ridden, fearing the worst but praying for the best, Hope finds her imagination running wild.

Meanwhile, a woman with dangerous secrets to keep buried will do anything to protect her marriage. In one fleeting instant, it’s all within her reach. She can finally give her husband the one thing that will make him love her again.

Hope will do anything to get Luca back. The other woman will do anything to stop Hope. As Hope’s search grows more desperate and the other woman’s plans more twisted, their lives collide in an explosive battle of wits. With a boy caught in the middle, nothing on this deadly path of love and revenge is what it seems.

My thoughts:

This is the second book I’ve read by Lyn Liao Butler and I am a fan! This domestic suspense kept me completely engaged and I could not put it down!

Once again, I found myself drawn right into the story that Butler creates with characters that you find sympathetic yet aren’t sure if they are as true as they want you to think they appear to be. I love complex family dramas and this one really had my heart pounding a few times.  She manages to take your typical kidnapping case and turn it upside down. It’s gripping and emotional and just when I thought I had a pulse on what was going on, the rug was pulled out from underneath me. I definitely did not see where this was heading and I loved it for that!

This one might start off a little slow but be ready for it to take off, especially as it nears the end. The twists totally shocked me and I found myself gasping a time or two. Lyn Liao Butler is definitely on my must-read list after this one and I cannot wait to see what she writes next!

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