[EPUB] The Stepson by Jane Renshaw

Psychotherapist Lulu knows that her husband Nick is struggling with demons from his past. When he was sixteen his entire family disappeared without a trace and Nick has always insisted that his stepmother, whom he hated, was to blame. That trauma has left him feeling that anyone he loves who is in danger might vanish in a heartbeat, so now he is obsessed with Lulu's safety. Lulu knows the only way to heal a trauma is to confront it, so she persuades NIck to return to the country house from which his family vanished. Soon after they arrive in this sleepy rural community, another person disappears. As Lulu is forced to question everything she knows about Nick and his missing family, dark secrets emerge from the past. The certainties of her old life fade away and are replaced by a horror beyond her wildest nightmares.