Where He Left Me

A Novel

By: Nicole Baart

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From Nicole Baart, the bestselling author of Everything We Didn’t Say, comes a twisty, atmospheric novel about a newlywed whose husband disappears, leaving her isolated in Washington State’s North Cascades.

“In every world, I’d find you.”

Sadie Sheridan’s new husband Felix, a professor of planetary sciences, has vowed to never leave her. But when Felix doesn’t return from a work trip, Sadie is stranded at Hemlock House, the remote mountain homestead where her husband grew up. Doubt creeps into Sadie’s heart. Then panic. Where is he?

Scared and alone in a place that feels haunted, Sadie struggles to make sense of what her missing husband left behind. But when she catches strangers lurking around the property, Hemlock House instantly becomes both a sanctuary and a prison. Navigating threats from outside and in, Sadie is forced to confront shocking secrets that leave her questioning whether she really knows Felix at all. As a powerful storm bears down, she must decide: is she fighting only for her own survival now—or for the man who promised her the stars?

Filled with dark menace and the danger of the wild, Where He Left Me is at once heartfelt and heart-pounding, from an author who “writes with a poet’s eye for language and a storyteller’s gift for suspense” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).

The story was good. But…

There was entirely too much descriptive background & pointlessness. There was virtually no point in the flashback portion of the story. I feel like 80% of the book was superfluous. Maybe some people like the artsy scene painting but it was exhausting for me. The literally devices or whatever there called (incessant personification & metaphorical descriptions) made it feel too much like a 12th grade essay.

Like I said — probably somebody else’s cup of tea. Just not mine.