Almost Mother
(2026)(The fourth book in the Final Chapter Book Club series)
A novel by K S Reid and Mira Shaw
Lila Hastings is barely holding it together. Since her husband Elijah vanished without a trace, she’s been raising their two kids on her own on tiny Whisper Island. Lila is running on fumes and failing at everything—or at least that’s what it feels like.
Then she wakes one morning to find her one-year-old daughter’s crib empty.
In little Mallory’s place is a phone with a message from a mysterious group called The Village.
Motherhood is a privilege.
The rules are simple. Complete a series of tasks to prove her worth as a mother. Keep her routine. Tell no one—or she’ll never see her daughter again. If she completes the tasks, her daughter will be returned.
But Lila isn’t the only mother being tested. Across the island, another woman receives the same devastating ultimatum—different child, different tasks. Same impossible choice.
Someone has decided these mothers must prove they are worthy—or lose everything.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Then she wakes one morning to find her one-year-old daughter’s crib empty.
In little Mallory’s place is a phone with a message from a mysterious group called The Village.
Motherhood is a privilege.
The rules are simple. Complete a series of tasks to prove her worth as a mother. Keep her routine. Tell no one—or she’ll never see her daughter again. If she completes the tasks, her daughter will be returned.
But Lila isn’t the only mother being tested. Across the island, another woman receives the same devastating ultimatum—different child, different tasks. Same impossible choice.
Someone has decided these mothers must prove they are worthy—or lose everything.
Genre: Romantic Suspense