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Have you ever wanted to be a better version of yourself? Eve Dawson would do anything to be a better mother. So when a pill promises to replace sleep with hours of extra productivity every day, she takes it. Within days, Eve is renovating the house at dawn, doing yoga before breakfast, and...

Twenty-five years ago: teenage Leah had a sleepover with her three best friends. By morning, the other girls were missing. This small town has been searching for answers ever since. Now it’s happened again. Three boys decide to camp in a field next to one of their homes. When dawn comes, dew glistens on their empty tents. Overgrown farmland is searched. Three distraught families are desperate for news. A mother herself now, Leah’s heart breaks as terrible memories flood back.

Leah and her three best friends get changed into their pyjamas, eat pizza, and argue about what film to watch. They laugh together, until the early hours. But the next morning, Leah blinks open her eyes and sees three empty sleeping bags. The other girls are gone. Twenty years later. In her small hometown, still-haunted Leah has never been able to shake off the rumours and whispers. How could she have slept through it all? She must know what happened.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lindsey Pruitt spends her nights watching other people sleep. A registered sleep technologist in a small Ohio River town, she works nights at the Carrick Regional sleep lab, where she knows every flicker of a brain wave and every sound a body makes when...

Traumatised by the events of her past, exhausted by insomnia, Becky Braithwaite believes that a new start will help her to recover. She leaves home to fulfil her brother’s dreams, and honour the life he never had…but she soon finds that escaping from the pat is not as easy as she imagined. 

When Kenzi wakes up in a rarely used wing of her family's historic mansion, she knows something is wrong. Her sleepwalking has returned, but this time, it's more dangerous—and she's waking up farther from her own bed. As her nightly wanderings grow more frequent, her family scrambles to protect her. Then they uncover an unsettling photograph of Millie Brannon, an ancestor who looks eerily like Kenzi, with a haunting accusation scrawled on the back. Nearly a century ago, Millie too roamed these halls in her sleep, only to wake up covered in blood.

Four mothers. One body. Many secrets. Marnie is a first-time mum in a new town, paralysed by anxiety and pushing away her police-officer husband. Peyton is a teen mum, living with her parents and longing to behave like other teenagers her age. Fleur looks like the perfect picture of a mum who is coping and loving motherhood, but no one knows that under her beautiful dress, her body is covered in bruises caused by her husband.

"How good's the big twist? You won't see it coming."—Entertainment Weekly "Terrific…an unpredictable and unsettling familial drama that has drawn comparisons to the novels of Gillian Flynn and fellow Dubliner Tana French."—Kirkus Reviews When a couple's lost child resurfaces they are...