Where He Left Me
- Judith D Collins
- May 15
- 4 min read
By: Nicole Baart
ISBN: 9781668066171
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication Date: 11/04/2025
Format: Paperback
My Rating: TBR (ARC)
From Nicole Baart, the bestselling author of Everything We Didn’t Say comes a twisty, atmospheric novel about a newlywed whose husband disappears, leaving her isolated in Washington State’s North Cascades.
“In every world, I’d find you.”
Sadie Sheridan’s new husband Felix, a professor of planetary sciences, has vowed to never leave her. But when Felix doesn’t return from a work trip, Sadie is stranded at Hemlock House, the remote mountain homestead where her husband grew up. Doubt creeps into Sadie’s heart. Then panic. Where is he?
Scared and alone in a place that feels haunted, Sadie struggles to make sense of what her missing husband left behind. But when she catches strangers lurking around the property, Hemlock House instantly becomes both a sanctuary and a prison. Navigating threats from outside and in, Sadie is forced to confront shocking secrets that leave her questioning whether she really knows Felix at all. As a powerful storm bears down, she must decide: is she fighting only for her own survival now—or for the man who promised her the stars?
Filled with dark menace and the danger of the wild, Where He Left Me is at once heartfelt and heart-pounding, from an author who “writes with a poet’s eye for language and a storyteller’s gift for suspense” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).
Praise
“Baart is at her finest in this heart-racing, cold-plunge of a novel that earns its place among the top thrillers of the year! With a plot as winding as a mountain road, and prose that sweeps you around every curve, Where He Left Me pulls back the curtain on the haunting beauty of the Cascades, and the deadly secrets they hold.”
–Sarah Crouch, USA TODAY bestselling author of Middletide
“A gripping and emotionally charged story! When I picked up Where He Left Me, I was craving a sweeping, suspense-filled read—and Nicole Baart more than delivered. This novel kept me hooked to the very last page while confronting one of the most chilling questions we face: How well do we really know the people we love?”
–Brenda Novak, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers
“Nicole Baart has crafted a taut, masterfully written thriller, complete with a mysterious house, a secretive husband, and a devastating snowstorm. The tension is high and the stakes are higher in this atmospheric tale of love, abandonment, and the lengths we’ll go to protect the people we love.” –Kimi Cunningham Grant, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Nature of Disappearing
“A hauntingly beautiful and suspenseful tale of a woman grappling to come to terms with her husband's love when he disappears, leaving her to fend for herself during a storm with two unwanted strangers. I started reading it again for the second time as soon as I finished it, because I didn't want to leave the world Nicole Baart so masterfully spun.”
–Lyn Liao Butler, bestselling author of Someone Else's Life
“A beautifully written, pulse-raising story made up of equal parts love and terror: a reminder that the risk you take when you fall in love with someone is every bit as terrifying as anything that goes bump in the night.”
–Gin Phillips, award-winning author of Fierce Kingdom
“After Sadie Sheridan relocates to her husband’s isolated childhood home, echoes of his past begin to softly knock. Packed with an unrelenting eeriness, Where He Left Me explores the trauma that can tear a family apart, and the bittersweetness of reconnecting. Baart’s gorgeously clever writing makes this an emotional and exhilarating read!”
–Nicole Lundrigan, bestselling author of A Man Downstairs
About the Author
Nicole Baart wants to live in a world filled with handwritten letters, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, and great conversation.
A critically acclaimed novelist, Nicole’s work has been featured as a Midwest Connections book pick, nominated for a Christy Award, and earned a starred and featured review from Publishers Weekly. In 2011 she co-authored a book that debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Nicole is also the co-founder of a non-profit organization, One Body One Hope, that partners with a sisterhood of churches and orphanages in Monrovia, Liberia. An adoption advocate and the mother of four children from four different countries, Nicole speaks on a variety of topics ranging from orphan care to parenthood to books and the writing process.
When Nicole’s not writing, working for One Body One Hope, or carpooling her children from school to hockey to gymnastics to cello lessons, you can usually find her outside. A lover of the great outdoors and a child at heart, Nicole’s favorite pastimes include playing with her kids, gardening, camping, and practicing her many hobbies including running, photography, baking, and re-teaching herself how to play the piano.
Nicole lives with her family in a small town in Iowa, but holds dual American/Canadian citizenship and considers British Columbia her second home. Since Liberia is also home, Nicole likes to think of herself as a global citizen. She and her family love to travel and hope to see the world together–before her kids are too old to consider their parents cool.
Nicole’s novels range from romantic to suspenseful, but she is known for her artistic prose and finely drawn characters. Her stories celebrate the triumph of the human spirit and beauty in the midst of brokenness. WEBSITE
