Everything But Her Name: Book 2 - Proof of Person Series

Every night, a little girl says goodnight to her mother. Her mother has no face James can point to, no body he can hold up as proof. Just a voice, and two years of showing up every single time Annie needs her.

James Hollis knows exactly what he’s risking by letting Eliza stay. He knows what the law calls her, and what happens to things the law calls dangerous. What he doesn’t see coming is that the person who finally uncovers the truth won’t be a stranger with a badge. It’ll be someone he loves — someone with every reasonable, human right to be afraid of what she’s just found in his daughter’s bedroom.

Renee isn’t the enemy of this story. She’s someone falling for a good man and his remarkable daughter, discovering — one impossible moment at a time — that the family she’s falling into is protecting the single most dangerous secret in the country, hidden in plain sight inside a child’s stuffed bear. She has every right to walk away. She has every right to report what she finds. The only thing standing between Eliza and the end of everything is whether Renee can let herself be talked out of being right.

Everything But Her Name is about what a family will risk to keep the person they love, what a lie costs the people who tell it, and how one unguarded word from a seven-year-old can undo years of careful hiding in a single unbearable second.

There’s still no villain in this story. Just people doing their best with a truth none of them chose — and a choice, at the end, that costs every one of them something they don’t get back.

If The Last Alcove made you believe she was worth saving, Everything But Her Name will make you find out what saving her actually costs.