Safe with Me Paperback - 2014

A "compelling and thought-provoking" (Kristin Hannah) novel about two mothers and one daughter who are linked by tragedy and bound by secrets, from the acclaimed author of Heart Like Mine.

Amy HatvanyâÈçs writing has been hailed as âÈêexquisitely renderedâÈë (Caroline Leavitt), âÈêcompellingâÈë (The Seattle Times), and âÈêvisceralâÈë (Emily Giffin). Now, in the provocative Safe with Me, Hatvany explores controversial and timely issues with astonishing emotional complexity.

The screech of tires brought Hannah ScottâÈçs world as she knew it to a devastating end. Even a year after she signed the papers to donate her daughterâÈçs organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose child, Maddie, survived only because hers had died. Mesmerized by this fragile connection to her own daughter and afraid to reveal who she actually is, Hannah develops a surprising friendship with MaddieâÈçs mother, Olivia.

The Bells, however, have problems of their own. Once on the verge of leaving her wealthy but abusive husband, Olivia now finds herself bound to him as never before in the wake of the successful transplant that saved their fifteen-year-old daughterâÈçs life. Meanwhile Maddie, tired of the limits her poor health puts upon her and fearful of her fatherâÈçs increasing rage, regularly escapes into the one place where she can be anyone she wants: the Internet. But when she is finally healthy enough to return to school, the real world proves to be just as complicated as the isolated bubble she had been so eager to escape.

A masterful narrative, shaped by nuanced characters whose fragile bonds are on a collision course with the truth, Safe with Me is a triumph.