The Midnight Hour
A Novel
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In this thrilling, richly woven novel that spans from bustling London streets to the boulevards of Paris, a woman with a dark family secret tries to turn back the hands of time before it's too late.
“A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets—the perfect summer read.”—Kate Morton, bestselling author of Homecoming
Notting Hill, London: One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker's mother walks out of their front door and doesn't return. With her little brother in tow, desperate to find their mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of secondhand shops and shadowy figures, far from the grand townhouses in her comfortable neighborhood.
As Maggie struggles to maintain a stable life for herself and her brother, she befriends Wolf, another young person also living on his wits alone. But can he help solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance—or will her growing feelings for him just cause her further pain, upending her life even more? When she discovers that her beloved house now holds a dangerous new secret, and Wolf is involved, Maggie, heartbroken, makes her escape.
Twenty-one years later, in her Paris apartment, Maggie gets a phone call that shatters her hard-won new life. While in London, the incoming owner of the Parkers' old Notting Hill house is excavating the basement, unaware of what might lie beneath—and the clock starts ticking on buried secrets.
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This mesmerizing mystery from Chase (The Birdcage) traces the story of an eccentric British family across two decades. In 1998 London, model DeeDee Parker is a loving mother to her biological teen daughter, Maggie, and her young adopted son, Kit. One day, DeeDee disappears from the family's bohemian home on the Portobello Road without explanation. Maggie, frantic and suddenly responsible for her younger brother's well-being, takes Kit for a walk, during which a handsome stranger named Wolf rescues the boy from being hit by a car. Wolf and Maggie soon fall into a tentative relationship, and Wolf clues the siblings into his work as an antiques dealer. Flash forward to 2019, and Maggie is a bestselling novelist living alone in Paris. When she learns that a remodel of the family home has unearthed human remains, she returns to London to warn Kit that things are about to heat up. With poetic prose and a sweeping scope, Chase reveals the Parker family's secrets at a tantalizing pace. The heart of the story, however, lies in Maggie and Wolf's reunion, which the author portrays with tenderness. Surprising, suspenseful, and heartfelt, this is impossible to forget.