Deyoung, Andrew: Stay Away from Him

"Had me hooked from the first line. The characters are complex in a way that makes it impossible to tell who to trust." -Tasha Coryell, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer On the evening she met exonerated murderer Thomas Danver, Melissa Burke let him help put her five-year-old son to bed before coming back upstairs to enjoy the dinner party. Thomas was so nice, and a pediatrician. She didn‘t know anything then about his wife‘s suspicious death... Relocating with her 5-year-old son to a new city after an ugly divorce, Melissa Burke isn‘t looking for a new relationship right away-only distance from her ex, and space to rest and heal from the emotional scars of a broken marriage. But an unexpected relationship is exactly what she finds at a friend‘s dinner party when she meets Thomas Danver, a charming widower who asks for her number at the end of the night. Intrigued, Melissa learns from her neighbors that Thomas is a dedicated father of two girls, one of the most respected pediatricians in the city-and an exonerated murderer. Thomas‘s first wife went missing three years ago, presumed dead, and Thomas was eventually cleared of her murder in an investigation that became a local media sensation. But while some still believe he killed his wife, Melissa‘s friends insist that he was unfairly targeted by the police and couldn‘t hurt a fly. Attracted to Thomas and also fascinated by the case, Melissa agrees to one date-and finds herself quickly swept into an obsessive, whirlwind romance. But when Melissa receives a chilling, anonymous threat-or perhaps it‘s a warning-she begins to question how much she truly knows about the man she‘s falling in love with. Is he really innocent? "A powerful, cautionary thriller."-William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author, for The Day He Never Came Home