This change is a result of the last year and a half, a result of my husband’s daughter, Bailey, being the stunningly disinviting age of sixteen. It’s certainly what the twelve-year-old wants to know, which leads me to explain how I can be so certain that she is twelve, having spent most of my life seeing people in two broad categories: child and adult. Because what they really want to know is whether I’m Owen’s wife. And, in that time, I’ve learned not to correct people either way. But Owen and I have been married for a little over a year. I was Hannah Hall for the thirty-eight years before I met Owen, and I didn’t see a reason to become someone else after. I hesitate before answering-the way I often do when someone asks me if that is who I am. It’s a twelve-year-old girl, in a soccer uniform. But when I open the door-when I learn that everything is about to change for me-the messenger isn’t a cop or a federal investigator in starched pants. On television, it’s usually a police chaplain or a firefighter, maybe a uniformed officer from the armed forces. And, on the other side, someone is waiting to tell you the news that changes everything. If You Answer the Door for Strangers… If You Answer the Door for Strangers… With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity-and why he really disappeared. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.Īs Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey.

“A fast-moving, heartfelt thriller about the sacrifices we make for the people we love most.” - Real Simpleīefore Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. The instant #1 New York Times bestselling mystery and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick that’s captivated more than two million readers about a woman searching for the truth about her husband’s disappearance…at any cost.

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