The First Time I Saw Him

Laura Dave returns to Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter Bailey in a follow-up to The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years have passed since Hannah's husband Owen vanished, and the two have made a new life in Southern California, including a relationship with Bailey's grandfather Nicholas. Then Owen turns up, silent and watching, at Hannah's exhibition in Los Angeles, and she knows at once that the danger they escaped has found them. A warning message sends Hannah and Bailey on the run from enemies they cannot see, haunted by questions no one has answered. The 2026 novel became the basis for the second season of the Apple TV adaptation of the first book.

Reese Witherspoon chose it as a Reese's Book Club pick in January 2026.