Vanishing Acts: A Novel

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman€s past€"a past she didn€t even know she had€"catches up to her just in time to threaten her future.

How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fianc©, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can€t recall€¦until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it€"and threatens to jeopardize her future.

With Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult explores how life€"as we know it€"might not turn out the way we imagined; how the people we€ve loved and trusted can suddenly change before our very eyes; how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat. Once again, Picoult handles an astonishing and timely topic with understanding, insight, and compassion.