The Extra Child

Megan Cahill has spent her career reading children, so she knows what she sees when she finds the family cat laid out too neatly on the laundry room floor and her seven-year-old stepdaughter watching from the doorway with quiet interest. Nobody believes her. Not her husband, not the clinic, not the caseworker holding photographs of bruises Megan never made. In a fog-bound Oregon town, a mother races to prove what a child has already planned.