She just wanted a distraction from her marriage. She didn't expect to fall for a serial killer.
Jess Langford is thirty-seven, invisible, and married to a man who initiates sex like it's a calendar reminder. Then Nate Calloway walks into a PTA meeting - leather jacket, motorcycle, tattoos, a dead wife, and a smile that makes her forget her own name - and for the first time in years, Jess feels alive.
So she does what any bored suburban mom would do. She builds a fake dating profile to investigate him.
It starts as harmless curiosity. Then the stories stop matching. A car accident in one telling, a fall down the stairs in another. A dead girlfriend in Phoenix. A dead wife in Portland. A name that used to belong to someone else. And a little girl who flinches at loud noises and says careful, rehearsed things about her mother.
Jess tells herself she's protecting her kids. Really, she can't stop herself - not from the investigation, and not from him. Even as the evidence piles up. Even as her husband starts asking questions. Even as she starts to wonder if the fake woman she invented to catch a killer is the only version of herself she still recognizes.
By the time she breaks into his house and finds the locked room, it's too late to walk away. And the truck pulling into the driveway means she's no longer alone.
Whip-smart, wickedly funny, and impossible to put down, The PTA Dad is for fans of Freida McFadden, Ruth Ware, and Lisa Jewell - a domestic thriller that asks how far a woman will go to feel something again, and what she's willing to risk to survive what she finds.