Cover Reveal for The Stepmother by Sheila Bugler!

As usual, happily married Sarah arrives at the school gate to pick up her two stepchildren, Izzy and Patrick.

But when they don’t run out to meet her, she knows something must be wrong.

Sarah can’t believe her ears when the teacher tells her that her husband, Mike, removed them from school earlier in the day. All of Sarah’s calls to him go to voicemail.

Worse is to come when she is told by police that as she and Mike are not legally married, and he is the children’s father, there is nothing they or Sarah can do.

Then she receives a text message from Mike: Don’t go home. It’s not safe.

What on earth is going on and how can she find her children?

A story that hooks you from the first page and keeps you guessing all the way through.

Out with Hodder Fiction September 2026

Posted on December 8, 2025