John has never liked Belport Ray longs to escape it. The point connecting the two lines of Kate and Abby’s lives is Belport Island, where John and Kate have a summer home, where Abby and Ray live year-round. And Abby found his boots and freshly laundered clothes shoved in the trash. Daughter Lori heard him crying in the bathroom late at night. Clients of his caretaking company ask why he hasn’t come by to clean up their property, yet he claims to have spent the entire day doing just that. Ībby Gilpin has noticed some odd behavior from her husband Ray. If we don’t talk about the monsters in this world, John’s voice whispered, we won’t be ready for them when they jump out from under the bed. ‘When you talked to him, did he give you any indication something was wrong?’ If he wasn’t going to work each day in the fresh shirts Kate had ironed and left out for him, where was he going? How was he spending his days? Who was he with? She fluctuated wildly between feeling scared for her husband and feeling furious at him, between wondering where he was, and where he had been. Her body felt off balance some parts were numb, others were aching. The bigger question was where had John been for the past three months? Nausea swept through her system. A conference, she quickly discovers, he never attended. Kate Keddie’s smooth, predictable life careens off course when her husband, John, doesn’t return from a medical conference in London.
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