She has spent fifteen years believing love would be enough. Now her family is coming apart. Kathi Beattie has built her world around her adopted son, Jake. But at fifteen, Jake wants answers about who he is and where he came from. His anger is growing, and Kathi increasingly finds herself the target of his frustration. Then a mysterious stranger begins drawing close to him. As the distance between mother and son widens, Kathi becomes desperate to understand what is happening before she loses him altogether. But Jake isn’t the only one searching for the truth. When secrets buried within Kathi’s own family begin to surface, she is forced to question everything she believes about motherhood, identity and belonging. To save her relationship with her son, Kathi must face the past. Even if the truth changes their family for ever. A dark, emotional novel about adoption, motherhood, family secrets and the question of what it truly means to belong.