"What Happens Next," by Christina Suzann Nelson

 "What Happens Next," by Christina Suzann Nelson

Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy--but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. While her daughters spend the summer in Hawaii with her ex-husband and his new wife, she must manage life on her own. All of that changes when she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast.

Dora Crane has never accepted that her younger daughter could be dead, keeping her home looking the same as when her daughter disappeared. But when her husband leaves her and her older daughter intervenes, she agrees to counseling and to pack up her missing daughter's belongings under one condition: Faith Byrne comes to Deep Valley and sheds light on the cold case.

As the long-abandoned investigation moves forward, old wounds and long-buried secrets are exposed. Will these two women, whose lives have never been the same, finally get the answers they need to reconcile the past and the future?

This book had you going back and forward with who you think was involved with Faith's missing friend Heather.  The emotions of Heather's family, made your heart break.  It also made you think of, what would you do in that situation?

The book bounces back and forward between the past and the present.  It took me a little while to get to the bottom of who was who, but once you did things fell into place.

Some things didn't make sense and some things for me were just too convenient.  There were many layers to this story, that you needed to dig through.

Stars out of 5 : 3.5  It wasn't a horrible book, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I should/could have.  I will have forgotten about it in a couple of days.

"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc. 

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