Can we ever truly know the people we love? Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice ''Beans'' Bennett''s life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans''s mother is still alive - and in danger - Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth. She learns the ''patient'' is a member of a notorious family that owns a drug company largely responsible for the national opioid epidemic, and that her mother was once tangled in their web. In a race against time - and her mother''s assailants - while once again facing the disorder she thought she''d put behind her, Beans discovers that, like herself, her mother had a devastating secret. With its fast-moving, edge-of-your-seat action and intimate look at mental health, Since She''s Been Gone will keep readers in its grasp long after the last page.
