Twenty-five years after her entire family vanishes without a trace, Cynthia Archer is struggling to live a normal life with her husband and daughter, until sinister clues, all pointing to her missing family, begin to reveal the dark secrets of the past.

This book offers solace and practical help to those who have suddenly lost a loved one and all who assist them in their grief. This revised and expanded edition has a new chapter on men, women and grief, discussing some of the different ways people grieve.

It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. Ben returns as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence...

Te levantas. La casa está vacía. Tu familia ha desaparecido. Es una mañana que no olvidará jamás. Cynthia Archer, de quince años, despierta con una fuerte resaca y temiendo la inevitable confrontación con sus padres. Pero cuando sale del dormitorio no encuentra a nadie. No ve a sus padres, tampoco a su hermano, Todd. De repente. Sin dejar rastro. No están. Veinticinco años después, Cynthia sigue con varias preguntas y ninguna respuesta....

A young boy presents the different ways his family members and others say goodbye, then describes the worst goodbye he ever experienced.