Whatever her reasoning, she’d jumped into the deep end and let herself sink. Was that the world Veronica had been trying to set up for her own life? Had she honestly thought her mother had been happy despite what Veronica herself had known about Dad? Or had she just thought that was the way it was supposed to be?

Back then, Veronica had thought they could make it work and had striven to model herself after her own perfect home-maker mother: But Veronica secretly hates Johnny and feels trapped by the marriage they entered into when they were both probably too immature to decide on forever. Superficially, everything looks fine: they’re a good-looking family who owns their own home. Perhaps it’s paranoia on her part, but the last thing she wants is for the cracks in her seemingly perfect marriage to be brought to the world’s notice. Johnny becomes a hero, feted in the media, but where he thrives on being in the spotlight, Veronica shrinks from its glare. So when Johnny goes hiking one day and comes across a child who had been reported missing in the Colorado mountains, the press attention is almost too much for Veronica to bear. Veronica herself is the opposite of her husband in many ways, being an introvert who far prefers reading books to partying with friends. Her beloved daughter Sydney is ten years old and idolizes the last member of their family unit, handsome, outgoing Johnny Bradley, the personal trainer whose seasonal career path means that the Bradleys are often strapped for cash. As a physical therapist, she’s the main breadwinner in her small family of three. Veronica Bradley is a woman barely holding it together. False Step by Victoria Helen Stone urges readers to stay calm, keep smiling, and watch your step-in this marriage of secrets and lies, nothing is what it seems.

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