An emotionally charged,dual-timeline suspense set between LA and NYCthis debut novel is perfect for fans of The Last Thing He Told Me and Luckiest Girl Alive. A clinical psychologist is thrown into her dark past as she races to uncover the truth about her mother’s death while struggling with her own mental health. Can we ever truly know the people we love? Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice ΓÇ£BeansΓÇ¥ BennettΓÇÖs life into turmoil. Bereftshe developed a life-threatening eating disorderand went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that BeansΓÇÖs mother is still aliveΓÇöand in dangerΓÇöBeans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth. She learns the ΓÇ£patientΓÇ¥ is a member of a notorious family that owns a drug company largely responsible for the national opioid epidemicand that her mother was once tangled in their web. In a race against timeΓÇöand her motherΓÇÖs assailantsΓÇöwhile once again facing the disorder she thought sheΓÇÖd put behind herBeans discovers thatlike herselfher mother had a devastating secret. With its fast-movingedge-of-your-seat action and intimate look at mental healthSince SheΓÇÖs Been Gone will keep readers in its grasp long after the last page.
