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It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.
But there’s no waking up from this…
On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert home.
But he is never found.
Forty years later, their therapist daughter Lily welcomes a new client into her home. Zach has a shocking theory about what happened to her brother Robert years before.
If Zach is to be believed, someone out there knows what happened on that ship. And they would do anything to stop the truth getting out.
Carmel Harrington is the internationally bestselling author of fourteen novels. Her most recent novel, The Stolen Child, was an Irish Times No. 1 bestseller and winner of the Good Housekeeping Good Books Autumn Collection. Carmel’s debut novel Beyond Grace’s Rainbow was a winner of multiple awards, and several of her books have been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. She is a regular on Irish TV screens and radio and has been a guest speaker at literary events in Ireland, UK and USA. She was also the Chair of Wexford Literary Festival for three years. Her new novel, The Nowhere Girls, will publish in January 2026.