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Behind the Red Door by Megan Collins

5.0

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I absolutely loved the authors previous book The Winter Sister if you haven’t read it go and grab it now! I was so thrilled when I won this amazing book in a giveaway from the author! The book opens up with Fern Douglas whose a social worker in Boston. She’s married to an amazing man Eric and their trying for a baby, she nervous because her parents did not act like parents , and she had a bit of an unstable childhood , so she’s worried she won’t be a great mother. When the news flashes with a missing woman’s picture named Astrid, Fern is certain she knew this woman in her past. Astrid had been kidnapped 20years before and returned home unharmed and now she’s missing again. Eric says Fern must have known Astrid from the famous kidnapping before it had been all over the news. Uneasy Fern keeps having flashbacks and nightmares of Astrid’s face and she has the ominous feeling their connected somehow. When Ferns father Ted whose a researcher asks her to come and help pack he’s moving to Florida she uneasily agrees, but she’s never gotten over his experiments which would see her different reactions to fear. Fern hopes going back to her childhood home will unearth memories she has forgotten and somehow lead her back to Astrid and what led to her to go missing 20 years before and again now. Boy this book had so many twists and turns!! Ferns father was a piece of work who does experiments like this! I loved how the authors way of writing she made my skin crawl at times! Five stars!!