After surviving a serial killer’s abduction as a young teenager, Ellery Hathaway is finally attempting a normal life. She has a new job as a rookie Boston detective and a fledgling relationship with Reed Markham, the FBI agent who rescued her years ago. But when a twelve-year-old girl disappears on Ellery’s watch, the troubling case opens deep wounds that never fully healed.Chloe Lockhart walked away from a busy street fair and vanished into the crowd. Maybe she was fleeing the suffocating surveillance her parents put on her from the time she was born, or maybe the evil from her parents’ past finally caught up to her. For Chloe, as Ellery learns, is not the first child Teresa Lockhart has lost.
Ellery knows what it’s like to have the past stalk you, to hold your breath around every corner.
Sending one kidnapped girl to find another could be Chloe’s only hope or an unmitigated disaster that dooms them both. Ellery must untangle the labyrinth of secrets inside the Lockhart household — secrets that have already murdered one child. Each second that ticks by reminds her of her own lost hours, how close she came to death, and how near it still remains.
From the first moments of Every Waking Hour, we are thrust into Ellery Hathaway’s past as she tries to cobble together a life in the present.
Reed Markham, the FBI agent who rescued her years before, is now her lover, although they are trying to keep it off the radar.
Chloe’s disappearance awakens old memories for Ellery, but she is determined to use her own experiences to help find the girl.
As a Boston PD detective, Ellery is acutely aware of the pitfalls of using her own experience to work a case, but she could also be uniquely qualified to find the answers.
I haven’t read the previous books in this series, but the author has done a great job of filling in Ellery’s background.
As we follow the clues that lead to answers, we can’t help holding our breath as each moment passes. I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next to Reed and Ellery. 4.5 stars.
I like the sound of it, its the kind of police procedural/mystery I’d read mostly because of the characters.
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Thanks, Kathryn, I have another book in the series, and probably should have read that one first! I am eager to see what happens in the previous novel.
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I’ve read all the books in the series. I like how the author left sort of a cliff hanger in the epilogue.
Also I really like this series as a whole so if you get some time you can go back and start at the beginning of the series it is well worth it.
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Thanks, Susan, I am planning to do just that!
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