Domestic suspense · International mystery
He disappeared with one child. The other one saw him leave.
Two lifelong best friends follow a supposedly dead husband beyond every boundary of home, uncovering the marriage, family, and conspiracy hidden inside his disappearance.
One story across multiple books · Begin with Book One
One disappearance. One continuous pursuit.
Amanda Rhines is supposed to be mourning her husband and daughter. Then her six-year-old son comes home alone and tells her that only one of them is truly missing.
Katerina Walters believes him. Following that belief will take both women out of the New Hampshire town that shaped them and into a pursuit where every new place reveals another version of the man Amanda married.
Each book solves a consequential mystery, exposes a deeper lie, and moves Amanda and Katerina closer to Parker. The chase continues in order.
Book One
Catch Me at Calder Pond
Brielle York
Cover reveal to come
Book One
Three people vanish on a family camping trip. Only one comes back.
When six-year-old Simon Rhines is found alive days after his father and twin sister disappear, everyone wants to believe trauma has confused him. Simon insists his father is alive, and that he watched him leave with Parker.
Amanda cannot make that story fit the husband she has loved since she was a teenager. Her lifelong best friend, Katerina, can. As they test the details the adults dismissed, the official story begins to fracture, along with Amanda's marriage and every memory she trusted.
Missing child · The child was right · Presumed-dead husband · Marriage secrets
The heart of the series
Amanda and Katerina have known each other since kindergarten. That history makes Katerina the person Amanda needs most and the one capable of hurting her most deeply. Their friendship carries the investigation, but loyalty does not spare them from suspicion, anger, or the cost of telling the truth before someone is ready to hear it.
Read in order
Beauclaire Isles novels stand alone and can be read in any order. Catch Me is one continuous pursuit. Start at Calder Pond.