Author: Bette Lee Crosby
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Genre:  Fiction
Source: Ashley at Lake Union Publishing

Goodreads:  A missing child sets the lives of three women on a collision course in this powerful and compelling novel by USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby.

1971.

When a music festival rolls through the sleepy town of Hesterville, Georgia, the Dixon family’s lives are forever changed. On the final night, a storm muffles the sound of the blaring music, and Rachel tucks her baby into bed before falling into a deep sleep. So deep, she doesn’t hear the kitchen door opening. When she and her husband wake up in the morning, the crib is empty. Emily is gone.

Vicki Robart is one of the thousands at the festival, but she’s not feeling the music. She’s feeling the emptiness over the loss of her own baby several months before. When she leaves the festival and is faced with an opportunity to fill that void, she is driven to an act of desperation that will forever bind the lives of three women.

When the truth of what actually happened that fateful night is finally exposed, shattering the lives they’ve built, will they be able to pick up the pieces to put their families back together again?

Ope’s Opinion: This was a very interesting perspective on a missing child story.  Most books are very intense because you don’t know where the child is or who did the kidnapping.  From the very beginning you see the birth mother’s perspective and the kidnappers perspective.  Throughout the book, I thought – this is an interesting story… then the last few chapters had me holding my breath.  I could not put it down and wanted to see where it went.

The ending was not what I expected.  It felt a little ( just a little ) too easy and perfect.  It is how you might hope life would go, but didn’t feel completely realistic ( which is okay – it is fiction! ).  I did enjoy this book.