Many involved went to jail, including the grandfather. To protect Bailey and avenge his wife’s death, Owen testified against the grandfather and the crime group.

Bailey’s mother was killed in suspicious circumstances which Owen blamed on the organized crime group, but the grandfather disagreed. In Austin, they learn that Bailey’s maternal grandfather worked for an organized crime group as their lawyer. Hannah and Bailey both remember odd references to Austin, TX, so they decide to go there and investigate Owen’s past. One neither Hannah nor Bailey could have anticipated. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity-and why he really disappeared.

Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.Īs Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss as a US Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Published: May 2021 by Simon & Schuster Torrie’s Rating:īefore Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey.

The last thing he told me book 2