A story about the risks we take to protect the ones we love What happens when an ordinary family is pushed to breaking point?Molly Fitzgerald and her husband Jesse are no strangers to trauma. Molly's mum went missing on 9/11 and didn't come home. Molly now heads a disaster response unit. Jesse's family was torn apart by a court case that pitted his parents against his siblings. He sees deception every day in his work as a police polygraph expert. The couple manages to keep the past behind them until a medical emergency exposes a secret, threatening everything they know to be true. Heartrending, shocking, immersive, Hollow Bones is Jodi Picoult at the height of her storytelling powers.