Publisher's Synopsis
Two women meet on a train. Each is running from a deadly secret. When one disappears, the other decides to take her place-for better, or for worse.
Jae-young has just left everything she's ever known, not that it was much. Her thankless job, her infested apartment, her abusive boyfriend-who happens to be dead on the kitchen floor. Murder was never the way she envisioned leaving, but it was desperate times. Now, escaping her transgressions on a train to the bustling city of Seoul, Jae-young is just hoping to become invisible-safe.
On the train she meets a chatty mother with her infant son who seem to be running from a similarly harsh life with her unfaithful husband, hoping to find refuge with the in-laws she's never met. To avoid further conversation, Jae-young excuses herself for a moment. When she returns, the woman is nowhere to be found, but her crying child remains with a note, pleading with Jae-young to take him to his grandparents in a remote province far from Seoul.
It's not an ideal pitstop, but for the sake of the child she can't ignore the request. When Jae-young arrives, the house takes her by surprise. It's a gated manor oozing with opulence and the finest luxuries. Having never met their grandchild or daughter-in-law before, the family assumes Jae-young is the boy's mother and ushers her in. Then Jae-young realizes: There's nothing more invisible than becoming someone else.
But both women have ghosts in their pasts. Jae-young may have no idea what lies rotten under the shiny veneer of her new life, but there's nothing she won't do to make sure she never goes back.
