Inside of Me

In this riveting tale, McHaffie (Over My Dead Body) sends the reader on an agonizing journey to find out the truth about what happened to 15-year-old India Grayson’s father, Victor. Set in London and the surrounding areas of the U.K., the story details a daughter’s search for answers to her father’s disappearance, who has been missing and assumed dead since she was eight years old, and it begins when India hears his voice at a train station seven years later. Family members clash, as the relationship between India and her mother, Tonya, deteriorates. Bottled up feelings and emotions haunt them both as they try to deal with their grief (“You know, some folk are so lost in their grief, their loss, their pain, they can’t find space for anybody else to feel bad about what’s happened”). What Tonya hasn’t revealed to India are the mysterious disappearances of teenage girls that happened when Victor was around. McHaffie impressively weaves together the perspectives of multiple characters, while delivering an exquisite story, one that deals with the struggles people face when it comes to accepting family members for who they really are. (BookLife)