The Last Confession

A man spends sixty years hiding what happened to his sister. Then, on his seventieth birthday, he sees her face again.Ethan has spent sixty years building an ordinary life.A good husband. A quiet father. A respectable man.Nobody knows what happened to his younger sister, Anna, who disappeared when they were children.Nobody knows why Ethan never talks about his childhood.And Ethan intends to keep it that way.Until his seventieth birthday.When his granddaughter Lena arrives, Ethan sees something he cannot explain away: for three seconds, in the afternoon light, she looks exactly like Anna.He knows it is impossible. Lena is twenty-six. Anna disappeared sixty years ago.But the resemblance unlocks something Ethan has spent a lifetime refusing to remember.As the birthday celebration continues around him, Ethan begins writing the confession he should have written decades ago.What happened on the hill that night?Why was Anna never found?And how does a ten-year-old boy live for sixty years with the knowledge of what he has done?The Last Confession is a psychological crime novel about jealousy, memory, guilt, family, and the terrible distance between the person we believe we are and the person we have spent a lifetime trying not to become.