Wish You Were Gone

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For fans of the Netflix hit original series Dead to Me comes a captivating thriller (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) about what happens when the death of a husband and father isnt the tragedy everyone believes.

Emma Walshs looks-great-on-the-outside marriage is at the breaking point, and shes finally worked up the courage to confront her husband James about his drinkinghis alcoholic rages, his blackouts, the uncertainty and fear his behavior has created for her and their two kids. But James never shows up to meet her as planned, and all her righteous words go unsaid. And unsaid they remain, because the next time Emma sees James, his body is crumpled amidst the wreckage of his flashy car, smashed to its final resting place halfway through the back wall of their suburban houses roomy garage.

In the aftermath of the fatal crash, she and her teenage children, Kelsey and Hunter, begin to imagine life without the looming, volcanic presence of their husband and father. Buoyed by the support of her two closest friends, Emma struggles to deal with her grief, complicated by the knowledge that Jamess legacy as an upstanding business owner and family man shines only because so many people were so willing, for so long, to keep his secretssecrets that twist into new and unexpected shapes as the mysterious details of his last day of life begin to come to light.

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Kieran Scott has written more than fifty novels for children and teens, eight of which (under the pseudonym Kate Brian) have beenNew York Timesbestsellers. She is the editorial director of a childrens imprint, and lives with her family in New Jersey. She is also the author of Regrets Only andWish You Were Gone.