The Last One to Believe Her

She survived the attack. Now she has to survive the verdict.

Sofia Duarte is holding her life together by a thread. Double shifts at a Lisbon fast-food restaurant. A controlling ex-husband who won custody of their daughter. An exhaustion so deep that no one around her seems to notice she's quietly falling apart.

Then, walking home after a late shift, she is attacked in a deserted alley.

She fights back. She gets away. Hours later, the two men who attacked her are found burned to death in a car outside the city, and the police say Sofia killed them.

The evidence is stacked against her. Her court-appointed lawyer barely listens. And all she can think about is her eight-year-old daughter.

When the prison van crashes on a rain-soaked road, Sofia runs.

She ends up in Serrazes, a forgotten village in the mountains of central Portugal, where no one knows her name. A kind man takes her in, no questions asked. But his wife is watching. The neighbors are talking. And when a stranger who has been asking about her is found dead by the river, Sofia realizes she was never as hidden as she thought.

Someone is getting closer to the truth.

And Sofia is running out of places to run.

For readers of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell, and Alice Feeney: a gripping psychological thriller about a mother on the run, a family torn apart, and a truth no one wants to hear.