" At once a captivating mystery, a love letter to classic literature, and a sharp-eyed examination of marriage, The Book of Secrets is a gripping novel of family, friendship, and the undeniable pull of the past. After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. All he has left behind is a cryptic note explaining that he returned to his and Chloes childhood town of Redbridge, California a place brimming with memories of young love and unspeakable loss, and a place Chloe never wants to see again. Tending to their small bookstore while trying to reach her vanished husband, Chloe stumbles upon a notebook tucked inside Nate's ancient copy of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . Written in a code that Nate and his sisters created as children using passages from their favorite books to scramble hidden messages in the text ;the pages contain long-buried secrets from Chloe's and Nate's past, and clues to why he's gone back to Redbridge after all these years. As Chloe reunites with Nate's family and struggles to decipher the notebook's hidden messages, she revisits the seminal moments of their youth