The Perfect Mother

By: Wilder, Tess

Sarah Mitchell has the perfect life: a successful child psychologist, a handsome husband, two beautiful children, and a spotless home in affluent Westfield Ridge, Connecticut. Every morning she runs five miles, every evening she hosts book club with flawless grace. She controls everything-until she can't.

Seven days before her daughter Emma's lavish 17th birthday gala, an anonymous text arrives: a photo of an old driver's license. The name: Sally Brennan. A face Sarah hasn't seen in twenty-four years. A name she buried after one desperate night at the top of a staircase.

The message is clear: Pay up, or everyone at the party-two hundred guests, including her husband, her best friend, the detective sniffing around-will learn the truth about who Sarah really is. About what she did when she was fourteen. About the blood on the stairs.

As the deadline ticks down, Sarah's carefully constructed world unravels. Secrets surface in her marriage, her daughter hides something explosive, and a familiar face from her past watches from the shadows. Sarah will do anything to protect her family-even if it means confronting the monster she became to survive.

In seven days, the perfect mother could lose everything.Or become someone far more dangerous.

A gripping domestic thriller of buried trauma, maternal instinct, and the terrifying cost of perfection-perfect for fans of The Silent Patient, Gone Girl, and Behind Her Eyes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQXY7FCJ
• ISBN13: 9798233045424
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Saheed Babatunde Abdulahi
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"