The Daughter Who Stayed - by Anita Holloway (Paperback)

About the Book

Five women. Twenty-five years. One friendship built on a secret. Two best friends discover they are sisters, and the friend who has always known is revealed.

Book Synopsis

They called it a sisterhood. It was actually a conspiracy.

For twenty-five years, Elena, Jordan, Sloane, Maya, and Natalie were inseparable. They were the anchors in each other's lives through medical residencies, high-profile divorces, and the grueling climb to the top of their professional worlds. They shared every secret. They celebrated every victory.

Or so they thought.

During a milestone trip to the Caribbean, the silence of their luxury villa is broken by a single discovery. Elena, a surgeon who demands absolute precision, finds a hidden message from her late mother that contradicts everything she knows about her birth. Jordan, a journalist who has spent her life hunting the truth, realizes she has been the subject of a decades-long investigation she didn't know existed.

As the women are pulled from the turquoise waters of the island back to the rural red clay of Conyers, Georgia, the masks begin to slip. The history they built together wasn't a happy accident. It was a carefully managed outcome.

One of them has been holding the keys to a lie that spans generations. Another is about to find out that the sister she always wanted has been standing right in front of her for twenty-five years.

In this high-stakes suspense thriller, five women must decide if twenty-five years of friendship can survive the truth of who they actually are. Some bonds are forged in love. Others are manufactured in shadows.

This is the story of what happens when the people you trust most are the ones who have been lying to you from the start.