Then baby Mia arrives. At first, Estelle and Jack are quite happy with their new baby. Then, when Mia is a couple of months old, she develops a very severe form of colic. Severe in that she cries constantly rather than at just a certain time of the day. It is also then that the money problems begin and Jack is forced to take a job out of the state with Estelle and Mia remaining behind in a brownstone that Jack owns. It is being renovated for selling although now, there is an apartment in it that is finished.

Estelle has no help when Jack is away through the week and Mia exhausts her. There are also strangers milling about the building as they work to get the renovations completed. These strangers make Estelle nervous, which is something else to put more pressure on her.

One day, Estelle wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how she got there. All she can remember is a lot blood but not where it came from. But that is not the worst of it. Mia is missing and Estelle has no idea where she is.

What follows in REMEMBER MIA is a twisting, turning, mind bending tale as Estelle struggles to regain her memory of what happened to her baby. I found it nearly impossible to stop reading even when life duties called. Writer Alexandra Burt takes her readers by the hand and leads them along a strange, frightening, and sad path that keeps them guessing the whole trip. Much like falling down The Rabbit Hole; you might think that you have it all figured out except that is when everything moves in a completely new direction.

As for the characters in REMEMBER MIA, Ms. Burt fleshes them out in a way that I became very involved with them. I did have genuine emotions regarding each of them and that is always a sign of great character development. It will not seem as if you are reading just a book. The feeling is more like that of reading a news article and following a horrific criminal case. You will form your own opinions as to what happened, just like in a "real life" case. The difference here is that you will eventually have your answers by the time your close the book for the final time.

If you enjoy books that pull you in from the beginning and keep you so fully engrossed that you think about them even when you are doing other things, REMEMBER MIA is a book that you should not miss. You will be doing yourself a great disservice if you allow that to happen as you will be depriving yourself of a truly exciting reading experience.

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