The Baby She Stole

Elodie has spent seven years being grateful. For the adoption, the open arrangement, the tiny allowances she has given the birth mother, Sabine. She has been a good adopter. She has been a good woman. Then Sabine takes Maya from the school gate, and the world splits open. For three days, two mothers are the same kind of monster on rolling news. When Maya is found, safe, the DNA test was only supposed to confirm the obvious. It does not. The child is not related to Sabine. The child is not related to Elodie. The child is not related to either of them. The hospital that delivered both babies closed a decade ago with an insurance file nobody was meant to read. And a year before the abduction, both mothers already knew. A devastating, twisty psychological thriller about motherhood, honesty and the wrong child, with an ending you will not recover from quickly.