HOME VIDEO

Nine days after he buries his father, Ethan Cole finds thirty unlabeled tapes locked in the old man's basement.

The first one shows his sixth birthday.

He doesn't remember the house. He doesn't remember the summer light, or the woman at the edge of the frame. And when the boy on the screen runs into her arms and calls her Mom, Ethan stops breathing - because his mother died when he was seven, and that woman is not her.

Ethan always thought his father was just a private man. A retired detective with no photographs on the walls, who checked the locks every single night, who raised him alone in a quiet gray house. He never asked why there were no baby pictures. He never asked why the records of his life seemed to begin at the age of six.

Now he knows.

Frank Cole didn't lose the missing boy at the center of a 1989 Ohio murder case.

He took him home.

But a rescue and a crime can look exactly the same from the outside - and the woman who survived that night, who built a national foundation on the strength of her grief and whose face the whole country trusts, has spent thirty-six years waiting for one careful man to die so she can bury what he kept.

Frank is gone.

And she already knows where Ethan's children go to school.

Told across two timelines and building to a confrontation you won't see coming, HOME VIDEO is a heart-in-your-throat thriller about the lies that raise us, the truth that outlives us, and the difference between the love that says the words - and the love that just quietly checks the doors.

Perfect for readers of Harlan Coben, William Landay, and Lisa Jewell.