Author: Rea Frey
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Mystery
Source:  Staci at St. Martin’s Press

Goodreads:  Emma Grace Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Missing since June.

Emma Townsend is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude.

Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Abandoned by her mother. Kidnapper.

Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport terminal—and when a second-chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah takes her, far away from home. But if it’s to rescue a little girl from her damaging mother, is kidnapping wrong?

Amy Townsend. Unhappy wife. Unfit mother. Unsure she wants her daughter back.

Amy’s life is a string of disappointments, but her biggest issue is her inability to connect with her daughter. And now she’s gone without a trace.

As Sarah and Emma avoid the nationwide hunt, they form an unshakeable bond. But her real mother is at home, waiting for her to return—and the longer the search for Emma continues, Amy is forced to question if she really wants her back.

Emotionally powerful and wire-taut, Not Her Daughter raises the question of what it means to be a mother—and how far someone will go to keep a child safe.

Ope’s Opinion:  Oh, My!  Intense, twists all along, sooo good!!!  Those are my first thoughts of this book.   

There are so many emotions that this book will make you feel while you are reading it.  I am still holding my breath and I finished reading it an hour ago.  I am not sure I would say this is realistic, but it is a wonderfully woven story – it is fiction!  

You think several times you know how it is going to end – nope, you won’t know until the very end.  

The “f” word could have been left out and the story would have been complete.