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By: Rebecca Drake 

ISBN:  9781250068910

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication Date:  3/22/2016 

Format:  Hardcover 

My Rating: 4 Stars

A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

ONLY EVER YOU by Rebecca Drake is a compelling domestic suspense psychological thriller--an emotional saga of a mother’s strong love for her daughter. A search for answers and a lovable dog, named Cosmo.

The book opens three months prior, July 2013, in Pittsburgh, PA---Jill Lassiter (professional photographer), with her three-year-old daughter, Sophia at the park. A distraction. Her daughter is gone.

The police are called. Jill is frantic. Forty minutes pass, and Sophia suddenly appears. Her husband, David arrives. She found a doggie. She loves dogs. What the heck happened?

A mark. A tiny red pinprick with a slight swelling of the skin around it. Did someone inject her? Was she drugged? A bug bite? All Sophia says is that she found the doggie. They go to the hospital. No answers.

Nothing would ever happen to Sophia again—the worst was over. However, Jill may be wrong. Strange things start happening.

Three months later Sophia goes missing again. The suspicion turns to the parents.

Jill thinks her daughter is still alive. Now she is the number one suspect. However, she knows she is innocent-- the real killer is still out there. A motive?

Does Jill really know David?

Jill is tenacious. How could she have missed the signs?

An accident. Payback. Motivation. A journal. A connection. A past. Twenty- three days. Who can she trust? A monster. A surprise twisted ending.

Throughout the novel, the author flashes back and forth to journal entries (identity not revealed). A man and woman. An affair. A breakup. How do the pieces fit together?

While none of the characters are particularly likable, the author keeps you reading the complex suburban domestic suspense to the final conclusion. My first book by the author and look forward to reading more!