We Promised to Love Him
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.02.2026
Verlag
Claire NorcrossSeitenzahl
310
Maße (L/B/H)
20,3/12,7/1,9 cm
Gewicht
375 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798233167751
He was everything they wanted. That was the problem. When Julia and Dave Whitfield adopt fourteen-year-old Ethan Marsh, they believe they're giving a damaged boy the family he deserves. Ethan is polite, perceptive, and heartbreakingly eager to belong. He remembers Julia's coffee order. He cooks dinner without being asked. He writes an essay about her kitchen that makes his teacher cry. He is the perfect son. But Dave sees something Julia refuses to see. The way Ethan's kindness is never random - always targeted, always calibrated, always directed at the person who needs it most. The way every small conflict between husband and wife seems to widen after Ethan enters the room. The way the boy flinches at the exact right moment, in front of the exact right audience. When Dave begins investigating Ethan's past, he uncovers a pattern buried across three prior foster placements: the same intense bond with the mother, the same slow destruction of the father, the same marriage collapsed from the inside out. A caseworker's note, written when Ethan was six years old and buried by the system, contains a warning no one passed along: This child requires intervention that a family setting cannot provide. But Julia has already chosen. And Ethan has made sure of it. A suffocating psychological thriller about the lies we tell ourselves to keep the people we need, WE PROMISED TO LOVE HIM asks the most dangerous question a parent can face: What if the child you love is incapable of loving you back - and you stay anyway? For readers of The Push by Ashley Audrain, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, and The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden.
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