I read a lot of books, but I can’t remember the last time I was so involved in one. Told in Jess’s own words, it gives an agonizing, blow-by-blow account of the nightmare a mother endures when her baby is snatched. The searching, following up clues, involving friends and family, the endless waiting ...it is all there in engrossing detail. This sounds like a rather linear plot but there is a lot more to it than that, such as who has snatched Louis and why, Jess’s own backstory, her marriage, her family, etc. It is not a short book either, and in most cases I would have been slating the author for being repetitive and lacking in subplots, but Ms. Seeber has the rare talent of saturating the reader in the story to such an extent that to include anything else in the story would have been a mistake. I felt quite tired when I put the book down, as though I had lived through the ordeal, too. Why aren’t more thrillers so ...thrilling? I look forward to more from this author if it is all up to this high standard.