Description
When an Ohio mother comes home from a two-week house swap in coastal South Carolina, someone has searched her house and the guest wife has vanished without boarding her flight. Every clue points to Jo’s husband, until Jo realizes the man she met on the guest family’s dock was never who he said he was.
Genre: Thriller > Domestic thriller, with a cold-case murder and a present-day kidnapping
Tropes: Home swap gone wrong · Husband with a secret past · Missing wife · Cold case reopened · Dual POV, then/now · Unreliable “villain” who isn’t one
Target length: 85,000–92,000 words (about 330 pages)
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