Bye, Baby: A Novel

Bye, Baby, a national bestseller and March 2024 Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick, is a gripping psychological drama about the dark complexities of female friendship, loyalty, and obsession.

The story follows Billie West and Cassie Barnwell, childhood best friends who have grown apart in adulthood. Cassie is now a wealthy wife, new mother, and rising lifestyle influencer, eager to shed her past—including Billie, who remains single and childless. But their shared history holds dangerous secrets that bind them in ways neither can escape.

One night, Cassie’s world collapses when her infant daughter disappears from her New York apartment. The shocking twist—Billie is the one who took the baby—sets off a tense unraveling of guilt, betrayal, and buried trauma.

Told through alternating perspectives in Carola Lovering’s signature suspenseful style, the novel explores how friendship can become both toxic and tender, how past wounds haunt the present, and how far someone might go to reclaim the person who once meant everything to them.