"A Small Request is a terrific thriller about the collapse of a seemingly perfect middle-class family."

-Kimberly McCreight (author of the New York Times bestseller Amelia's Secrets)

Everyone has secrets. That's why you can never really know or trust anyone. Not even yourself... It all starts with a small request, a simple act of kindness from one mother to another. When the dazzlingly beautiful Emily calls her friend Stephanie to ask her to pick up her son after school, Stephanie happily agrees. Emily has a life that would make any woman jealous: She is the perfect mother, and she has a great job in Manhattan with a famous fashion designer.

Stephanie, a widow living in a suburban Connecticut house with her preschooler son, turns to her daily blog to find connection and acceptance from the outside world. Stephanie sees Emily as her new confidante and is shocked when Emily disappears without telling her husband and son. Stephanie is sure something terrible has happened.

She can't keep herself away from the grieving family and soon becomes close to Emily's handsome but secretive husband. But she can't shake the feeling that he's not being completely honest about what happened to Emily. Is Stephanie delusional? How well does she know her "best" friend? She soon realizes that nothing - friendship, love or the most ordinary request - is as simple as it seems.