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The Perfect Daughter
Paperback
Publisher: Effortless Math Education
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the child you prayed for was never a miracle?
Eve Marlowe has the kind of life other women are taught to envy: a luminous home in Fairhaven Hills, a powerful husband, and Isla, the bright, watchful daughter she loves with a devotion that frightens even herself. After years of failed treatments and private grief, Isla's adoption felt like mercy. Like grace. Like the answer to every prayer Eve had been too broken to say aloud.
Then comes a strange appointment. A cream-colored envelope. A locked box left behind by Eve's dead mother.
And the first impossible suggestion that Isla did not arrive by chance.
Eve has always known how to read a room. Lately, the room is reading back. Small inconsistencies become patterns. Old family silences begin to speak. The life she thought she had chosen starts to look carefully arranged, and at the center of it all is the daughter she would die to protect.
Isla was not simply placed with them.
She was chosen.
And so was Eve.
As her marriage begins to fracture and the people behind Isla's adoption close in, Eve discovers that her perfect home has been built on surveillance, inheritance, and a love more engineered than accidental. To save her daughter, she must confront the secrets buried in her mother's past-and decide how far a mother can go for a child whose future was designed before she was born.
Bright, haunting, and emotionally charged, The Perfect Daughter is a literary psychological thriller about motherhood, control, adoption, and the terrifying question at the heart of love:
If someone made you to love, does that make the love less real?
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