{"product_id":"the-mother-i-did-not-k-b-cordova-9798256148362","title":"The Mother I Did Not Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA therapist with a shattered past opens the wrong door, and the truth walks in wearing a familiar face.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Santa Fe's high desert, Dr. Mari Vega keeps her casita locked and her heart locked tighter. Once celebrated for reading dangerous men, a malpractice scandal cost her the paper she published, the practice she built, and the daughter who won't say her name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a single week brings three patients and a storm that won't let up. Ines, a woman certain a silent stalker measures time in decades and slips into rooms without leaving a mark. Cordelia, a polished widow who wants to learn to see people the way they really are, even if that means asking whether a fall from a bell tower was helped by a hand. And Owen, a charming executive whose poise never breaks, until half a second of a wrong vowel turns his accent into a mask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs session notes blur into midnight confessions, edited tapes surface, an old detective knocks, and Mari's estranged daughter sets a sealed folder on a kitchen chair like a lit fuse. Her curandera friend says a man has changed his face. The past isn't past. It's patient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the box labeled ASHBY (CLOSED) finally opens, and the desert answers a question four generations refused to ask, Mari has to decide which door to guard: the one that protects her reputation, or the one that saves the women who still come to her for shelter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through clinical files and off-the-record reckonings, \u003cem\u003eThe Mother I Did Not Know\u003c\/em\u003e is intimate psychological suspense for readers who love fiercely drawn women and secrets unearthed by candlelight, where waiting is never just waiting, and every note in the file is a promise that someone is coming to the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for fans of Tana French, Paula Hawkins, and Celeste Ng.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. B. Cordova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256148362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thrive Collective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d","brand":"K. B. Cordova","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49084329361663,"sku":"9798256148362","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mother-i-did-not-k-b-cordova-9798256148362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}