The Replacement

About this book

<b>Nora Vance</b> has the perfect life—a beautiful Victorian house in Oakhaven, a brilliant surgeon husband, and a future that gleams like morning light through clean windows. But perfection, she's about to learn, is a cage with velvet bars. When Nora finds a diamond earring under her bed—one that doesn't belong to her—the first crack appears in her flawless world. <b>Dr. Julian Vance</b> dismisses it with a smile. A patient must have dropped it. Nothing to worry about. But Nora can't stop worrying. She starts noticing things: the locked basement door, the new prescription that leaves her foggy and compliant, the dark-haired woman who watches her from across the street. <b>Maya Chen</b>, the neighbor, seems to know something she won't say. And then there's <b>Cora Vance</b>—a woman with Nora's last name and a story that doesn't match Julian's. As Nora digs deeper, the ground shifts beneath her. Her memories blur. Her medication makes her doubt her own mind. Julian is so reasonable, so