The Silent Daughter

Schoolgirl missing the ticker reads and the camera cuts to a girls face. Blonde hair waterfalling over her shoulders serious eyes lips a little parted like shes about to speak. Thats when I realize Ive been holding my breath because the gasp when I inhale almost chokes me.Sadie Kelly has lost her job. Until last month she was a teacher at Horton College - the same high school she went to ten years ago along with her best friend Fiona. But Fiona died in an accident on their graduation night in circumstances Sadies spent the last ten years trying to forget and since then nothings been the same.Now Sadies jobless and living with Fionas mother Jan the woman whos watched over Sadie since she was a little girl and the one person Sadie would do anything to protect. But when Sadie hears that Horton schoolgirl Devon Hundley has gone missing everything changes. Devon is the daughter of Philip Hundley - wealthy school donor local doctor and a man Sadie knows all too well. And now Sadie cant help remembering the last time she saw Devon - and heard the whispered comment Sadies been trying ever since to forget...A gripping page-turner of family secrets and buried lies for fans of Adele Parks Lisa Jewell and Catherine Ryan Hyde.