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Bronswood
Welcome to Bronswood, the most prestigious private elementary school. Where all a parent’s dreams for their child come true if their child can make it through its rigorous standards.
If their child makes it out at all...
Heather Hartford's life is finally looking up. She's traded an abusive relationship for an affluent second husband with connections and status in the community. His social standing opens Bronswood's great wooden doors for Heather's two kids. The Bronswood PTA royalty have taken Heather under their wings. Her children, Charlie and Theodora, will have every opportunity in life that she herself never had.
But Heather's dream quickly becomes a living nightmare.
When she goes to pick up Charlie from school, Heather's world is upended when his teacher informs her that she picked him up earlier that afternoon. Security camera footage confirms it.
But Heather knows she hasn't picked him up, and she throws herself into an obsessive and dangerous search to find her son. As she sinks deeper into the mystery, she realizes: Charlie isn't the only child who's disappeared.
Heather isn't sure who to trust. Police think her son ran away. Charlie's father is suddenly reappearing in Heather's life. And something sinister is happening inside the walls of Bronswood.
Heather will stop at nothing to save her son. But first she has to find the answer.
Where is Charlie Hartford?
For fans of Alice Feeney's Daisy Darker, and Stacy Willingham's A Flicker In The Dark.
how it had to be
Megan stares, her eyes glassy. She wraps her arms around her knees as she waits for the city to speak to her. To whisper the truth of what happened that night. Now that she’s here, she isn’t sure she really wants it.
Based on a true story...
When Megan Palmer gets a call on the morning of her 27th birthday, the last thing she expected to hear was that her estranged father had committed suicide. The circumstances surrounding his death are strange, to say the least. But nothing is stranger than the text he sent to her while she was asleep. His cryptic message just may be the key that unlocks everything, if Megan can figure out what it means.
Megan’s mom and brother think she’s in denial, unable to process her father’s sudden death. Megan’s grandmother seems oddly unshaken by her son’s departure. Megan’s stepmom is hiding something from her.
With the help of her lifelong friends, Megan dives headfirst into an investigation of her father’s death that proves darker and more dangerous than she ever imagined. Her reckless obsession with discovering the truth threatens to rip the trio apart as she pursues her father’s secrets. In the end, Megan is alone, fighting to reconcile the father she once knew with the man everything else is telling her he’d become.
Everyone is a suspect. But Megan won’t stop until she uncovers the truth. What happened to Mark Palmer?
How It Had to Be is a mystery exploring the inseverable connection between familial bonds and the potent disconnect between fact and truth.
For fans of Sally Hepworth’s The Mother-In-Law and Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me
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