The Midnight Hour

In this thrilling,richly woven novel that spans from bustling London streets to the boulevards of Parisa woman with a dark family secret tries to turn back the hands of time before it’s too late. ΓÇ£A wonderful twisty novel of family and secretsΓÇöthe perfect summer read.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöKate Mortonbestselling author of Homecoming Notting HillLondon: One May eveningseventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return. With her little brother in towdesperate to find their motherMaggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of secondhand shops and shadowy figuresfar from the grand townhouses in her comfortable neighborhood. As Maggie struggles to maintain a stable life for herself and her brothershe befriends Wolfanother young person also living on his wits alone. But can he help solve the mystery of her motherΓÇÖs disappearanceΓÇöor will her growing feelings for him just cause her further painupending her life even more? When she discovers that her beloved house now holds a dangerous new secretand Wolf is involvedMaggieheartbrokenmakes her escape. Twenty-one years laterin her Paris apartmentMaggie gets a phone call that shatters her hard-won new life. While in Londonthe incoming owner of the Parkers’ old Notting Hill house is excavating the basementunaware of what might lie beneathΓÇöand the clock starts ticking on buried secrets.