Never Come Back — Joe Hart

Needing to help the most vulnerable is in Nora McTavish's DNA. Living within the echoes of her own traumatic past, she spends her days as a family advocate providing comfort and justice for those without anyone else to turn to. So when a long lost childhood friend calls asking for help and promising clues to the location of Nora's missing mother, she has no choice but to say yes.

Nora hasn't seen Tess Grayson in over twenty years. Living the perfect suburban life in a college mountain town, Tess's world is shattered when her husband Neil -- a professor at the local university -- is accused of killing a student he was allegedly having an affair with. When the charges against Neil are dropped and he petitions for custody of their daughter, Kendra, Nora steps in to help Tess any way she can.

But as details emerge surrounding the murder and unsettling occurrences plague the quiet neighborhood, Nora begins to suspect Tess isn't being fully honest with her. With Kendra's safety and well-being hanging in the balance, Nora works to unearth the family's secrets, and in doing so puts herself in the crosshairs of someone willing to kill to keep them buried.