Not Her Daughter

With every book, Ria Fry hits straight to the heart, exposing the human nature. She looks at family, marriage, and motherhood in a completely different way and asks questions that are terrifying to answer: can you not love your child? What role do biological parents play in their children’s lives? All the characters want you to sympathize and wish them the best, because deep down we all know that the situations Ria Fry writes about are not so far from real life.

Emma Townsend. Five years old. Grey eyes, chestnut hair. Missing since June.

Emma is lonely. Her mother is constantly nitpicking her, and her father seems completely indifferent to what’s happening in the family. Emma withdraws into her own little world of silence and solitude.

Sarah Walker. A successful businesswoman with a broken heart. A kidnapper.

Sarah has never seen girls as charming as Emma: a tiny grey-eyed princess in an enormous crowded airport. When Sarah meets the girl a second time, she takes her with her—far away from home. Isn’t it wrong to save Emma from an abusive mother?

Amy Townsend. An unhappy wife. A bad mother. Not sure she wants to get her daughter back.

Emma’s life is a chain of disappointments, but the biggest problem is her inability to build a relationship with her daughter. And now Emma has disappeared without a trace.