In Until I Find You, celebrated author Rea Frey brings you her most explosive, emotional, taut domestic drama yet about the powerful bond between mothers and children…and how far one woman will go to bring her son home. “Frey is a rising star in the suspense scene” – Booklist 2 floors. 55 steps to go up. 40 more to the crib. Since Rebecca Gray was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, … Rebecca Gray was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, everything in her life consists of numbers. Each day her world grows a little darker and each step becomes a little more dangerous.
Following days of feeling like someone’s watching her, Rebecca awakes at home to the cries of her son in his nursery. When it’s clear he’s not going to settle, Rebecca goes to check on him.
She reaches in. Picks him up.
But he’s not her son.
And no one believes her.
One woman’s desperate search for her son . . .
In a world where seeing is believing, Rebecca must rely on her own conviction and a mother’s instinct to uncover the truth about what happened to her baby and bring him home for good.
“Completely captivating, utterly compelling…a must read!” – Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, authors of The Two Lila Bennetts
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This was a very fast book that I finished in hours. I felt overwhelming sadness for Bec and all she had gone through. It was definitely a page turner! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy
Being a mother to a newborn is difficult. You are tired and moody most of the time. Now imagine that you are also blind and recently widowed. Motherhood would be much more difficult. Rea Frey shows us just how difficult and frightening it could be in her new book.
Bec just lost her husband and her mother and now is paranoid about losing her son. Is it the lack of sleep or the grief that is leading to her thoughts? Perhaps it is a combination of the two.
Her friends and neighbors are noticing that Bec is not herself. So when she claims that her son has been swapped with a different child, they aren’t sure whether she is telling the truth or whether she has lost her mind. The police thinks she is confused. Being left on her own, Bec decides to find her son herself and to figure out whose child she now has living in her home.
This story touches on every feeling that you have. You feel Bec’s grief, her confusion, her frustration, and her love for her son. You feel the horror that she feels when she first thinks that her son is not her own. Rea Frey brings the characters to life in such a way that you feel like you are walking beside them, living their lives.
Everyone is suspect. The twists in this book will keep you guessing to the end. You’ll want to keep reading because you need to know what actually is going on with Bec and her community of friends.
Thanks to Netgalley and St Martin’s publishing for the advanced copy of the book. The opinions are my own.
WARNING: This is a very emotional book. Get into the right frame of mind to read this spectacular book. You WILL need tissues and probably frequent “mental health” breaks.
This is the story of a woman who is blind; she loses her husband; she has a baby to live for and take care of. One day, she hears her baby crying and goes to the crib to pick him up…she realizes that he is not her baby. Nobody believes her. That is where her journey begins.
It would be hard enough to try to convince people that your baby is missing, even if you were a seeing person; for a blind person, it is way more challenging to make people believe you.
The characters in this book are well thought out and the writing is very descriptive. It is tense reading, but it is so worth it! I highly recommend this book!!
Rea Frey brought to life every mother’s biggest nightmare. The loss of a child with a twist! To be a blind mother taking care of your baby by yourself would be scary enough. But to reach for your child and realize that’s not your baby but you can’t see so who will believe you? This was a book I could not stop reading once I started. I highly recommend to all to get this book as soon as it is released. It will capture you entirely. You will ride the roller coaster of emotions with Rebecca as she tries to navigate this nightmarish journey and finds that maybe not all is truly lost. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with the requested ARC and all opinions and thoughts are my own.
Truly my heart was in my throat reading this novel!
A Mother never gives up! This describes Rebecca Gray.
She has a had a year nobody could understand.
Her husband and mother are dead, and she has a disease that has now left her almost sightless.
The best part of her life is that she has her three month old son that she loves with every ounce of her heart.
She knows every part of his body, his mannerisms, his smell and his needs.
She is exhausted, lacking sleep, but despite setbacks, making her way in the world as a new mom!
When she goes to check on him in his crib after a long day, she realizes; this baby is not her son!
There is no way he is her little boy and she is on a mission to find out where her infant has gone and just who is this baby that is now in her home?
Why does nobody believe that this child that Rebecca has now, is NOT her child? Has she lost her mind?
I was surprised at the end of the book! It was not what I thought.
I have read all of Rea Frey’s books and this is definitely a good one!
A beautifully, poignant, emotional story, Until I Find You examines what it means to trust yourself, even in a world where seeing is believing, and you can’t see to believe. With well-written characters and suffused with emotion, Until I Find You is a riveting story about the power of a mother’s love.