BF1 ORIGINAL FICTION
THE LAST DAY OF MOLLY DONOVAN
Ten years after five-year-old Molly Donovan is kidnapped and a ransom fails to bring her home, a new demand suggests she may still be alive. But the teenage girl at the center of the mystery knows herself by another name—and the truth threatens two families.
ABOUT THE STORY
One ordinary Saturday. One missing child. Ten years of secrets.
In September 1987, five-year-old Molly Donovan disappears from a grocery-store parking lot.
Her parents receive a ransom demand. They pay every dollar. They follow every instruction.
Molly never comes home.
As the years pass, the disappearance destroys the certainty that once held the Donovan family together. Robert cannot stop searching for answers. Marianne refuses to surrender hope without evidence. And Molly's older brother, Ben, grows up haunted by the moment he last saw his sister.
A thousand miles away, fifteen-year-old Anna Parker has a life she knows and a mother she trusts. But there are gaps in her childhood, questions her mother refuses to answer and memories that never quite fit the story she has been told.
When a dangerous man from the past reappears, those carefully protected secrets begin to unravel.
Then, on the tenth anniversary of Molly's disappearance, the Donovan family receives something they had almost stopped believing possible.
Proof that their daughter may still be alive.
What follows is a desperate race to save a girl whose identity has been rewritten—and a reckoning with the terrible difference between protecting someone and possessing them.
THE LAST DAY OF MOLLY DONOVAN is a gripping, emotionally charged psychological thriller about a stolen childhood, the devastating consequences of deception and the question of what makes a family when everything you remember may be a lie.