Books like 'In Her Footsteps'
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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 27 ratings“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom... -
Obsession by Shantel Tessier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI have lost those who I have loved. I have bled for those I hate. I have lied to those who are honest. What am I? You're a sinner dressed in white. You’re a ghost in the night. You're the demons that I fight. Who are you? Both of us were sinners. She was hell-bent on revenge, and I was determined to let her have it. She was a beautiful sin that alone would be my damnation... -
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's back.Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She's a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real... -
Born Mobster by Paige Dearth
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSeven year old Tony has one...choice to live or to die.Tony Bruno just wants to fit in, but the bullies at his school are cruel and relentless. At home, he leans on his mother Teresa for strength and comfort, but she’s no match for his father, Carmen. His father, a fighter and bully himself, hates Tony. He is embarrassed by the child for not fighting back and wishes that Tony was never born... -
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Someone Else's Baby by Ruby Speechley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe gave away her children. Now she wants them back.Charlotte Morgan knows how it feels to desperately want a baby. As a child, seeing her mum devastated by losing her longed-for babies, Charlotte wished another woman could give her mother what she so craved... -
Turning Point Club Box Set by J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnter a world that is real, raw, and filled with dark romance – this 2500+ page set contains the USA Today Bestselling Series and spinoffs Taking Turns, Turning Back, His Turn, Total Exposure, The Pleasure of Panic, The Boyfriend Experience, and Play Dirty... -
The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Widow. The Secret. The Liar. The Disappeared… On a routine flight from Africa to England, Dr Mason Palmer is tragically killed when the light aircraft he’s travelling on crashes and disappears in dense bushland. The Widow… Ten months later, Nicole Palmer is still trying to block out the grief of her husband’s sudden death... -
What She Saw by Wendy Clarke
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe lied to her daughter to save her family. Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. Leona and Beth hike together, shop together, share their hopes and fears with one another... -
The Man She Married by Alison James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow well do you know your husband?Since Alice’s fiancé walked out on her, she never thought she’d meet ‘The One’. But all that changes when she meets Dominic. Handsome, charming and kind, Alice can’t believe her luck when he proposes a few months later and moves into her West London home.Three years on, Alice’s catering business is thriving and she is married to a man she adores... -
A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWho needs enemies when you have a friend like that? I should wonder why I feel so comfortable with Taylor. Why I’m so enamored with a stranger I met at a bar.I should, but I don’t. Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant Hotel, she spends her days at a dingy Manhattan pub just so she won’t have to tell anyone the shameful truth... -
Last Seen by Lucy Clarke
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn a small seaside community, there’s always somebody watching… Twisty, pacy, and superbly plotted, Last Seen is the perfect psychological page-turner for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Sabine Durrant. Seven years ago, two boys went missing at sea – and only one was brought to shore. The Sandbank, a remote stretch of coast dotted with beach huts, was scarred forever... -
No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSecrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason’s life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the beach, and an adoring son, Josh, whose artistic talent looks as promising as his mother’s. But there’s something nobody realizes about Jenna... -
Don't Go Down There by Kiersten Modglin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unputdownable, totally twisted domestic thriller from bestselling author Kiersten Modglin.Spencer Edwards has a beautiful wife, two perfect children, and a sinister secret locked in his basement…When Andi Edwards discovers her husband isn’t where he’s supposed to be and isn’t answering her calls or texts, a flurry of scenarios races through her mind... -
Yellow by Elin Peer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if you achieved your dream – and it turned out to be a nightmare?For twenty-six years, I’ve chased money, fame, and beauty.Being a movie star and dating Nick, one of the hottest pop stars in the world, should have been all I ever wanted. Except, his drugs and jealousy almost cost me my life when he shot me...Categorized as:
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20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn a warm summer's morning in London, there's a lot more than just smog in the air. There's the romance of a first date. There's the courage of the emergency services. And there's the danger from those with dark secrets to hide...20 Minutes. 20 People... -
My Wife Is Missing by D.J. Palmer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings11 hours, 8 minutes When a woman disappears with her two children, one husband will do anything to find them—even confront the secrets of his own past—in D. J. Palmer's My Wife Is Missing, a twisty thriller from the author of The New Husband...A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from their New York City hotel room... -
The Missing Widow by L.G. Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI thought we would be safe here. But I was wrong…My son Clark and I live in a beautiful cabin outside a rural town, somewhere nobody will find us. I could not have found a more perfect place to start over, shielded by the trees and far away from prying eyes. But when I find a newspaper clipping on my porch, it drives fear into my bones. Widow wanted for murder screams the headline... -
Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDom and Stacey have the perfect life. Until they meet Tamara. Brilliant, beautiful, she hides a horrifying secret. One that may destroy them all.Happily married with two wonderful children, Dom and Stacey are living the dream. He runs a successful design agency, she is finding fame as an author of children’s books.Everything is perfect... -
The Girl on Gander Green Lane by M.J. Hardy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a perfect marriage, the perfect husband and perfect life is nothing but an illusion. Sarah Standon is living the dream, at least that’s what everyone tells her. She is the wife of a successful solicitor who looks like a movie star. They live a Stepford existence and appear to have it all. Then, one fateful night, everything changes... -
The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen KingThis collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together the first two novels of Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl...Categorized as:
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Lost Child by D.S. Butler
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe only turned her back for a moment but that was all it took.Two years ago, Beth Farrow turned her back on her three-year-old niece, Jenna, for just a few seconds. She disappeared without a trace... -
The Baby Shower by S.E. Lynes, Tamsin Kennard
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings* 10 hours, 33 minutes *A stunningly twisty story of toxic female friendships, guilt, and lies from S.E. Lynes, author of the number-one best-seller 'The Housewarming'. She doesn’t know I’m there, watching her in the mirror. She slides her hand under her blouse. And then I see something impossible. She isn’t pregnant…She bursts into my life like a storm, and nothing is the same again...Categorized as:
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The Phone Call by A.J. Campbell, Frazer Blaxland
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings6 hours, 19 minutes Joey Clarke was just fifteen when his dad died, leaving him to raise his much younger siblings as his mum dealt with the trauma of bereavement and her failing health. Ten years on, Joey's only pleasure is spending time with his friend Becca, the love of his life... -
The Guilty Husband by Stephanie DeCarolis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt only takes one lie to destroy a marriage.THE PERFECT HUSBAND…Vince Taylor has everything he could dream of. He’s the CEO of a tech firm in New York City, owns a beautiful home, and most importantly, he is married to Nicole – the woman who stole his heart the first moment he set eyes on her. Together they have built the perfect life... -
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The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAinsley Greenburg is a fixer. It’s what she prides herself on. So, when she realizes her marriage is at its breaking point, she makes a decision to repair it, no matter the cost. Approaching her husband to propose the arrangement is supposed to be the hard part, but Peter agrees to the salacious plan almost immediately.The rules are simple:They will each date someone new once a week...Categorized as:
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The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe thinks his secret is safe. But she knows the truth…My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and charming and everybody trusts him. Except me.On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.Doctor Drew Devlin is not the respectable figure he makes out to be... -
Tainted Love by Erin Cawood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor anyone in a relationship, the words 'we need to talk' can only mean one thing. In the last twenty-two years, the McKenzies have been through it, survived it, learned by it, and grown stronger from it, because life didn't stop for breath when they needed it... -
She Won't Leave by James Caine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe has taken over my life.Everything was perfect until tragedy brought my mother-in-law, Delores Sterling, to my front door with extra baggage at her side. After the sudden death of her husband, she asked if she could live with us temporarily.I knew that living with my mother-in-law wouldn’t be easy. She’s made it obvious ever since I married her only son, that I’m not worthy of him... -
My Husband's Affair by Ruth Heald
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe promised forever. But only one of us will leave this marriage alive…I stare at the messages between my husband Rob and another woman, their plans to run away together bringing tears to my eyes as I stand, trembling, in our luxurious apartment. I thought I had the perfect marriage... -
Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy the time I realized the truth about Daniel it was too late. But the truth about me? He never saw that coming…Dr Daniel Ashcroft was perfect: handsome, romantic, protective. I thought I was so lucky.But then I heard the rumors about his previous girlfriend, that she had vanished without a trace. That’s when I found the cameras in my apartment.I was trapped... -
The Engagement by Samantha Hayes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou thought you had escaped him. Until he proposed to your daughter.‘There’s someone I want you to meet,’ Belle says, as a man draws up to her side. He’s tall with dark hair and stubble on his square jaw. He’s dressed in expensive-looking clothes – tan trousers and a fitted navy shirt... -
Liars Anonymous by Marissa Finch
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Liars Anonymous, the support group for compulsive and pathological liars. Marnie Thorpe is at Liars Anonymous for one reason, and it isn’t to make friends. Still, when beautiful, ephemeral Claire finds herself in trouble, Marnie steps in to help. Claire is being stalked, she says, so Marnie lets her crash at her house... -
The Narrator by K.L. Slater
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if the chance of a perfect life… put your daughter in grave danger?Being a single mother is tough, but I’d do anything for my little girl Scarlet. I’d given up on my career as a voice actor when the call came, but suddenly I was the new narrator for a secret book from bestselling author Philippa Roberts, who has been missing for eight months. It was a lifeline for me and my daughter... -
Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost comes the chilling story of a young woman who returns to her haunted childhood home to unravel the deadly mysteries of her family’s past.Ava grew up in a haunted mansion, envied by all her friends. But when her mother died mysteriously there, the thrills of Blackworth Mansion became nightmares... -
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Two Dead Wives by Adele Parks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn overprotective father has lived as a recluse until his adult daughter – Stacie Jones – returns from Paris, in need of radical brain surgery. Peculiarly, he appears to almost welcome her illness, it does at least mean she is back under his roof – and his control.In the meantime, the country is rapt with the scandalous case of murdered bigamist Kylie Gillingham... -
The Couple’s Revenge by Daniel Hurst
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow far would you go to protect your child?I knew something was wrong. It’s a mother’s instinct.I could tell when my son started hiding things from me. He used to walk to school with a mischievous grin on his beautiful face. Now he avoids eye contact and keeps his head down... -
The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDaphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line, in this thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish.Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way from being an invisible wallflower... -
The Good Girl by Michelle Dunne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new thriller by the author of the Lindsey Ryan novels: Would you know a serial killer if you met one? What if she served your coffee every day?Grace Murphy doesn’t seem like the type of woman who’d have a man cable-tied to a chair, slowly dying in her house... -
The Good Wife by Ellery A. Kane
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy husband has been accused of something terrible. But what I’m about to do is much worse…I’m sick to my stomach when I hear about the young woman found dead outside my husband’s music studio the night of our wedding anniversary. She and Theo were close, so when the police knock on the door as our daughter sleeps peacefully upstairs, I think they’re just trying to rule him out... -
Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHas her husband really left her? Or is someone playing a deadly game?When Eva’s husband Samuel doesn’t come home from a boys’ night out, she thinks he’s sleeping off his hangover at a friend’s house. So she waits. And waits...Eventually, he sends her a text – he’s met someone else and needs a few days to get his head together. Eva is devastated... -
Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCause For Alarm by Erica Spindler released on Jan 25, 1999 is available now for purchase... -
My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI thought I knew my husband. I was wrong...I have the perfect life: a loving marriage, and an adorable little daughter, Mia, who is always full of smiles. But when my husband Keith is hit by a car, my whole world is turned upside down. With my heart breaking in his cold white hospital room, I hold his hand and tell him how much I love him... -
The Other Side of The Wall by Andrea Mara
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Sylvia looks out her bedroom window at night and sees a child face down in the pond next door, she races into her neighbour's garden. But the pond is empty, and no-one is answering the door.Wondering if night feeds and sleep deprivation are getting to her, she hurriedly retreats. Besides, the fact that a local child has gone missing must be preying on her mind... -
My Little Girl by Shalini Boland
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings‘I’m sorry. Your daughter is missing…’Claire Nolan receives a panicked phone call, telling her that her seven-year-old daughter Beatrice has gone missing on a trip to the local fair.It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. And it’s happening to her... -
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The Daughter-in-Law by Shalini Boland
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYour new husband has a shocking secret. Would your mother-in-law kill to protect it?From the moment I meet my new mother-in-law in her beautiful country house, she makes it clear I’m not welcome. Lilian Fletcher hates me for marrying her precious boy on a golden beach far away from her.Starting our marriage living in the Fletchers’ family home is a nightmare... -
The Break by Katie Sise
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCan she trust the people she loves? Can she trust herself? A new mother is pushed to the edge in a provocative thriller by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Open House.After the traumatic birth of her daughter at a New York City hospital, Rowan O’Sullivan returns home to her apartment with her perfect newborn, Lila...Categorized as:
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After the Wedding by Laura Elliot
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEveryone said she was the prettiest flower girl. But now her dress lies on the floor. It’s wet and torn, her shoes are lost. ‘Where did you go?’ her daddy asks. She shakes her head. All she can remember are the red rose petals scattering like drops of blood spilling to the ground... -
I'm Here to Help by Claire Lunn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘Just rest, Frankie. I’ll take care of you.’ I feel my baby kick as my nanny fluffs my pillows and lays me down. She gives me a soothing smile, but it doesn’t reach her eyes. She knows I’m afraid of her…When I shake our nanny Jasmine’s hand for the first time and catch her perfect smile, I can’t ignore the feeling that we’ve met before.But I tell myself it’s nothing... -
The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare. Holly is taken by a stranger and never found... -
Little Whispers by K.L. Slater
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou shared a secret with the wrong person.Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to...
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