Claire

Claire can't remember the life she lost. Her family intends to keep it that way. At forty-one, Claire has finally built something that feels almost normal: a quiet home, a job at the library, parents who never seem far away, and Adam, the first man who makes her believe she might still have a future. Then she finds a child's drawing hidden among her father's papers. The name on it is hers. The life behind it is not. A different surname. A husband she cannot remember. Two children no one has ever mentioned. And a fire on Willow Street that destroyed everything. Claire's parents insist they buried the truth to protect her. But the deeper she digs, the more their careful version of the past begins to collapse. Because Claire did not simply survive that night. She was at the center of it. And memory is not the only thing that can return. As Claire fights to rebuild her life and become the woman, wife, and mother she believes she can still be, old fears begin slipping into the new home she has created. Soon, she must confront the possibility that the greatest threat to her family may not be hiding in her past. It may be living inside her. A dark, emotionally charged psychological thriller about memory, motherhood, guilt, and the terrifying price of being given a second chance.