num_pages: 387
description: Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now shes got two kids a perfect husband a picket fence and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who cant let go of a cold casea local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time the missing mans family still waiting his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Three people living lives they never wanted hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect will find that the past doesnt recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dreamthe boredom of a nice suburban life the excitement of temptation the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facadesthey will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat. With his trademark combination of page-turning thrills and unrivaled insight into the dark shadows that creep into even the happiest communities Harlan Coben delivers a thriller that cements his status as the master of domestic suspense.
language: English
title: Stay Close
publisher: Dutton