It's a warm early summer's evening when 's doorbell rings unexpectedly. She opens the door to see the silhouette of a teenage girl standing in the shadow beyond the porch light-and in an instant she realises who it is. , the daughter she gave up as a baby. Daisy steps forward, trembling as she says "I'm sorry I didn't call first. But something happened. And I really needed... you." Seventeen years before, knowing she couldn't possibly give her beautiful little girl Daisy the future she deserved, Mia made the hardest decision of her life-to give her up. And seemed the perfect adoptive mother: calm, stable, and full of love for the daughter she'd always dreamed of having. The two mothers promised to keep communication open, so Daisy could have Mia's love and support along with Suzanne's. But as the years passed, those visits happened less and less, and now Daisy seems almost like a stranger to Mia. But she has arrived on Mia's doorstep, and she says she has a terrible secret. And she believes the only person who can help her is Mia. Her birth mother. Mia, however, has secrets of her own. Ones she is afraid to let Daisy or anyone else know. And while Suzanne desperately seeks a way back to her estranged child, can Mia overcome her past to help the girl they both call their daughter in her darkest hour? " . A book of love, loss, and loyalty... ." NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by your side to get through this book!!!!! It was a real tear-jerker. My husband even asked me if something terrible had happened and I had to explain it was just my book... ." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ... When the tears [came] though, they didn't stop. ... An absolute tear-jerker of a read for which ." Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I'm not someone who cries easily but... [I] thought this book might just break me into tiny pieces. This is ... I identified with both mothers as their trauma increased in intensity... A ...