Author: McFadden, Freida

Crime & mystery

Published on 19 August 2025 by Sourcebooks, Inc (Poisoned Pen Press) in the United States.

Paperback | 320 pages
128 x 197 x 24 | 226g

THE UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, The Boyfriend, and The Tenant comes a story of monstrous motherhood. She gave you a life. Now she wants yours.

***She was promised a miracle. She got more than she bargained for.

Abby wants a baby more than anything.

But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future.

That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer to serve as a surrogate. It’s an offer that will make all of Abby’s dreams come true.

But soon, strange things start happening. And it turns out Monica isn’t who she says she is. The woman now carry