When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her moms bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.

But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose out of control emotions and unsafe behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks.

Kat has been lying. Shes not just a lawyer; shes her firms fixer. Shes damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship thats far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messagesfrom her pastall of which shes kept hidden from Cleo . . .

Like Mother, Like Daughteris a thrilling novel of emotional suspense that questions the damaging fictions we cling to and the hard truths we avoid. Above all, its a love story between a mother and a daughter, each determined to save the other before its too late.