Bye, Baby

Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering

352 Pages

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Release Date: March 5, 2024

Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Friendships, Relationship Dynamics, Kidnapping

Billie and Cassie grew up together and were best friends even though they were so different. Billie’s mother suffers early onset Alzheimer’s, and her stepfather is abusing her. Cassie plans to attend Harvard while Billie goes to Northeastern. Cassie wants so much more out of life. She wants to marry for money and improve her station in life. Now that she has graduated college, married, with an infant, she is a micro-influencer. She has close to 49 thousand followers. When her infant daughter is taken, she realizes there is more to life than Instagram and posting for strangers.

The story has a fast pace, the characters are well developed, and it is written in the first-person point of view from two different perspectives. The characters are flawed but believable. Billie is clingy and Cassie is shallow. The title comes from their favorite teen movie, Dirty Dancing, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” As teens, they called each other Baby. This is the story of friendship and how much a person can take before breaking. If you like stories that involve friends with drama, you may enjoy reading this one.