We Promised to Love Him

He was everything they wanted. That was the problem.

When Julia and Dave Whitfield adopt fourteen-year-old Ethan Marsh, they believe they're giving a damaged boy the family he deserves. Ethan is polite, perceptive, and heartbreakingly eager to belong. He remembers Julia's coffee order. He cooks dinner without being asked. He writes an essay about her kitchen that makes his teacher cry.

He is the perfect son.

But Dave sees something Julia refuses to see. The way Ethan's kindness is never random...