The opening chapter of this book is great with the first line "I'm starting this story at the end." We find Chance the main character riding in a police car to the police station late at night. What has happened to lead her into this position? What did she do, see or know that has put her in this situation? The book then backtracks to a reality show coming to do over her mother's small house as a thank-you for all her work done with new refugee families in Wollongong. Even though there is only Chance and her mother, Chance feels part of a bigger family through her close relationship with the Sudanese family who live next door; Miss -D, Alek and Dut. and their extended family. Everything comes to a head though when one of the producers of the show remembers the fire that killed Chance's father and yet doesn't remember Chances' mother being pregnant with Chance at the time. Sparked by strange other behaviour from her mother and a lack of answers to her questions, Chance starts investigating. What is the truth?

Suspenseful novel written by the author of "Missing". ( )