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Narrated by:
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Taryn Ryan
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By:
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Nicole Trope
About this listen
Three-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter’s day, and nothing is as it seems....
It’s the phone call every mother dreads.
I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old, little girl Millie.
"I only went upstairs for a second," she says through her sobs. "She’s gone."
I race home to find my blue-eyed baby girl missing and my heart ripped out of my chest.
When the police turn up, Shelby’s story starts to unravel. What is she hiding?
Then I get a message saying, "Your husband is not who you think he is." Could he be lying?
Suddenly, my family feel like strangers. Everyone has a secret - even me.
No one knows why I was late coming back from the store and the guilt I’ve been feeling ever since....
Once the truth comes out, all of our lies exposed, will it be too late to save my precious child?
A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about family secrets, shocking pasts, and the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty, and The Wife Between Us.
©2022 Nicole Trope (P)2022 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Not the author’s best for me personally
- By Well Read Nana 1/24 on 01-24-23
By: Nicole Trope
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Not a Good Enough Mother
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
She knows everything about you… but can you trust her? I walk in to my interview with Ava Green and carefully hand over my application. It’s all made up, of course, but Ava doesn’t have to know that. There is so much worry in her blue eyes. Her phone pings with constant messages and a small stain marks her crisp shirt. Breakfast with her two little girls before heading out to this high-flying job every morning can’t be easy. Ava needs me, I think. More than anything.
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1 out of 5 stars
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SNOOZE FEST
- By Snuggly Bunny on 05-02-25
By: Nicole Trope
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The Truth About the Accident
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
I gaze at my husband’s once handsome face, so still and pale in the hospital bed. The doctors say I should keep talking. He might be able to hear me even after the terrible accident that left him fighting for his life. But all I have to whisper to my husband is this: "I know what you did."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shockingly good!!
- By Terri C. on 05-07-24
By: Nicole Trope
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Message Deleted
- By: K. L. Slater
- Narrated by: Annabel Scholey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange. This message was deleted. Leona answers the door, and insists everything's fine. She doesn't know anything about the message. Six hours later, Saffy gets a knock on the door. It's the police. They’ve found a body. And Saffy was the last one to see them alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s Slater! I was so excited!
- By Karenique on 12-22-24
By: K. L. Slater
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My Daughter's Secret
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Helen Walsh
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In the middle of the night, Claire wakes up to discover that her beloved daughter, Julia, is dead - and life, as she knows it, is over. Searching for answers, Claire stumbles upon a pile of letters, hidden under Julia’s bed in an old, battered shoebox, and feels closer to her daughter than ever before. They tell her that Julia was happy, that she was thriving at university, that she was in love. But as the letters go on, Claire starts to feel uneasy at something hidden between the lines. Even as she grieves, she must prepare to face a shocking discovery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Didn't see that coming!
- By T Ramsey on 11-05-19
By: Nicole Trope
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The Boy in the Photo
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Melle Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020
Megan waits at the school gates for her six-year-old son, Daniel. As the playground empties, panic bubbles inside her. Daniel is nowhere to be found. According to his teacher, Daniel’s father picked up his son. Except he and Megan are no longer together. After years of being controlled by her cruel husband, Megan finally found the courage to divorce him. Hands trembling, she dials his number, but the line is dead. Six years later, Megan gets the call she has dreamt about for years. Daniel has walked into a police station in a remote town just a few miles away....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, a really great book that kept my interest
- By cindy on 07-21-19
By: Nicole Trope
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His Other Wife
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
I never thought I would end up here. Alone, in a cold one-bedroom apartment, only seeing my precious daughter once a week. Another woman is living the life that was once mine. I wish I was still married to my ex-husband, the love of my life. I dream of tucking my five-year-old child into her ballerina bed sheets every night. I miss living in a beautiful house, the perfect family home, with a winding staircase and a sprawling garden. I’d do anything to be with my family again. To start over and prove to them that I’ve changed, that I won’t lose control like before.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One mistake
- By ana marquezini on 07-16-22
By: Nicole Trope
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A Mother Always Knows
- Grace Morton, Book 2
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
I stare at the photo of my beautiful daughter. Her hair is shining and her face is lit up with a smile. The man with her looks so happy too. But my mother’s instinct is screaming. I know something is terribly, terribly wrong. And I know what I have to do… I wish I could hold her tight. See if she still wears the same perfume she always wore. But my daughter blames me for her father’s death. She won’t even talk to me… I just know she isn’t really safe with her boyfriend, Garth. I will keep my distance and I will just watch her. For now.
By: Nicole Trope
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The Secrets in Silence
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Susan Strafford
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
There was so much anger brewing in the child that sometimes Alicia feared for all of them. And now she had gone and done this terrible thing. This terrible, terrible thing. Tara has lost her voice. She knows there was pain and fear, but she cannot remember anything else. Now she can answer the questions only with silence. Minnie has buried her voice for years, losing herself in silence and isolation, keeping her secrets safe and her broken heart concealed. Liam finds refuge in silence; it is a place to go to when he cannot get the words out.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started out good
- By DeRoseBreathe on 12-17-19
By: Nicole Trope
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The Day After the Party
- By: Nicole Trope
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 10
Katelyn smiles around at her husband and friends, gathered to celebrate her 36th birthday in their beautiful home decorated with fairy lights. But the next day Katelyn wakes up shaken and terrified in a hospital bed. She doesn’t remember the sweet taste of birthday cake icing, or how angry her best friend was at midnight, or the terrible things her husband said. She doesn’t remember the party at all. When she asks her husband what happened the night of the party he says "nothing". But her blood runs cold at the way his voice lilts slightly. The way it always does when he is lying.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wish I had amnesia
- By Russells on 10-16-24
By: Nicole Trope
Amaing book
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Wonderful!
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Great Story!
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It was a little wordy and slow at first but really picked up.
Worth the credit I’d say
Started off slow
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Dragged on
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