Watch your brother, says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son. Then comes the moment every mother fears - three-year-old Ben is gone. Nine years later, a new boy in the neighbourhood knocks on their door, a boy who does not know them, but will irrevocably change their lives a second time.
The Deep End of the Ocean is a best-selling novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard, released in 1996. It is about an American middle class, suburban family that is torn apart when the youngest son is kidnapped.