The Nowhere Girl: A completely gripping and emotional page turner

by Nicole Trope

  I would also love to hear from you. You can find me on Facebook and Twitter, and I’m always happy to connect with readers.

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  My Daughter’s Secret

  My baby girl, I’ll never forget you – your smile, your laugh, the way your hair sparkles in the sun. I cannot comprehend this pain. I cannot breathe through it.

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  For Claire, life as she knows it is over. And after the death of her daughter, Julia, she is searching for answers. Stumbling upon a pile of letters, hidden under Julia’s bed in an old, battered shoebox, she feels closer to her daughter than ever before. They tell her that Julia was happy, that she was thriving at university, that she was in love.

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  But as the letters go on, Claire starts to feel uneasy at something hidden between the lines. Even as she grieves, she must prepare to face a shocking discovery. Because Julia was hiding a terrible secret – and when it’s uncovered, it will make Claire question everything she thought she knew about her daughter…

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  An emotional and gripping page-turner that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Fans of Liane Moriarty, Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult will love this moving and poignant tale that is full of shocking twists.

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  Acknowledgements

  I would like to, once again, thank Christina Demosthenous for her exceptional editing. I know I can count on her to push me to do my best work, and every book I publish with her is better because of her skills. I am beyond delighted to have been able to work with her again.

  I would also like to thank Kim Nash, publicity and social media wizard, for helping my novels into the world. Thanks to the whole team at Bookouture, including Alexandra Holmes, Martina Arzu and Lauren Finger. Thanks to DeAndra Lupu for another sterling copy edit.

  I would also like to thank, as always, my mother, Hilary, for being my first reader and for reading my books with a fresh eye each and every time.

  Thanks also to David, Mikhayla, Isabella, Jacob and Jax (sock bandit and annoying writing companion).

  And once again thank you to those who read, review and blog about my work. You make it all worth it.

  Published by Bookouture in 2020

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  Copyright © Nicole Trope, 2020

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  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.

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  eBook ISBN: 978-1-83888-209-9

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.