Printz Award-winning author Meg Rosoff's latest novel is a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss.Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a roomsensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook.

So when her fathers best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him.

She collects information about Matthew from his belongings, from his wife and baby, from the dog he left behind and from the ghosts of his pastslowly piecing together the story everyone else has missed.

But just when shes closest to solving the mystery, a shocking betrayal calls into question her trust in the one person she thought she could read best.