Mike Slosberg

Mike and Mandy August were a happy couple. They married, bought a house, and eventually gave birth.

To a lie.

A lie so well-guarded, they almost believed it themselves. Now they live with their two terrific kids in a big white colonial with a tennis court and a mortgage, in Westport, Connecticut.

Suddenly, their son becomes ill. And it all starts to fall apart.

The secret they've harbored for more than a dozen years comes back to haunt them in ways they couldn't imagine. It threatens to rip their family apart. What are they trying to hide and whom must they try to protect?

The questions propel Mike August on an odyssey that takes him from Connecticut to Los Angeles to San Francisco and into the mountain town of Aspen, Colorado.

The answers, and incredible scheme Mike devises, make up the plot of this gripping novel. It is a sensitive and exciting story of what can happen to a decent family when tragedy strikes, secrets are revealed and lives are peeled apart, layer-by-layer, for all the world to see.

It's a story that will take you beyond its words and into the lives of its sharply drawn characters.

So order a copy right now then find out who the August Strangers are. And what their overpowering secret might be.