The Lost Daughter

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The Lost Daughter / A Beautiful Lie aka The Secret Life of Ceecee Wilkes Twenty-eight years ago a North Carolina governor's young pregnant wife was kidnapped. Now her remains have been found and a man charged with her murder. Only one person -- CeeCee Wilkes -- can refute the charges against him. But CeeCee disappeared years ago . . . Eve Elliott is a successful therapist to troubled students a loving wife a mother deeply invested in her family. But her happiness is built on a lie. When she was a lonely vulnerable young woman a single decision made in innocence led to a dark night of unimaginable consequences. Now forced to confront her past she faces another terrible choice: reveal to her family that she is not who she seems or allow a man to take the blame for a crime she knows he did not commit. If the choice affected only her life Eve is certain she would do what is right. But though inaction means condemning an innocent man it also means protecting her family from the mistakes of her past. Corinne Elliott has always known she was different: the only redhead in a family of brunettes the paralyzing shyness that contrasts with her sister's vivaciousness the many fears -- of highways of bridges of public spaces -- that constrict her daily life. Still with a new job possibility and a baby on the way she's found some measure of happiness -- until the day she turns on the television and finds her mother's image on-screen. Now as the past explodes into the present Corinne must confront the secrets she has always intuited and find answers from the one person who knows the truth of what happened two decades ago -- CeeCee Wilkes. --> Genre: Romance Sagas