The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

"A leisurely walk on a foggy San Francisco beach culminates in every parent's worst nightmare—a missing child. Abby turns her head for a matter of seconds to look at a dead seal pup. When she looks back up, her fiancé Jake's six-year-old daughter, Emma, is gone. Abby knows that Emma is still alive and that the clue needed to solve her disappearance is buried in her memory, but the police and even Jake eventually decide that Emma must have drowned. Stopping the search is not an option for Abby; to let go of Emma would be to let go of her own sanity. Richmond (Dream of the Blue Room) has written a mesmerizing novel of loss and grief, hope and redemption, and the endurance of love....(It will appeal to readers of) Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard."

—Karen Fauls-Traynor, Sullivan Free Lib., Chittenango, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.