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  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • Stone Sober by Gwyn McNamee

    Stone Sober by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stone Hawke is precisely the kind of man women are warned about—handsome, intelligent, arrogant, and intricately entangled with some dangerous people. I should stay away, but he manages to strip my soul bare with just a look and dominates my thoughts. Bad decisions are in my past. My life is (mostly) on track, even if it is no longer the one to medical school...
  • GUIDE STAR a gripping and emotional rollercoaster of a novel about love, life and not giving up by Joy Ellis

    GUIDE STAR a gripping and emotional rollercoaster of a novel about love, life and not giving up by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Do you love emotional and gripping fiction full of twists about people fighting back against what life throws at them? Then try this book by a #1 best-selling author now. You won't want to put it down. WHO DO YOU TURN TO WHEN LIFE GOES WRONG? WHO IS YOUR GUIDE STAR? What readers are saying about GUIDE STAR “ Loved this book...
  • Little Lost Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Lost Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a dead body is found in the walls during a home renovation, detective Georgiana Germaine gets swept into a cold case murder...
  • All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls.Verity is telling lies...And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.Serena has been lying for years. . .And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable..
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Identity by Nora Roberts

    Identity by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender...
  • She Says She's My Daughter by Lauren North

    She Says She's My Daughter by Lauren North

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ‘I don’t know who you are or why you’ve come here,’ I say, jabbing my finger at her, shaking as much as my voice. ‘But you are not my daughter. You are not Abigail.’Fourteen years ago , our family holiday ended in tragedy when my darling four-year-old girl was snatched from us on the beach. Not a day goes by when I don’t picture her wide brown eyes, and the freckles dusting her cheeks...
  • What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She 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 Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Brighton Beach, 1993Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, Jude disappears.Twenty-five years on, Nell is forced to quit her job to find out who the Brighton Mermaid really was - and what happened to her best friend that summer...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We’ll take care of everything.Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse...
  • No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets 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...
  • The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    The Night She Vanished by Wendy Dranfield

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My parents seem to be the perfect couple. But no one knows what I know... Everyone in the small Midwestern town of Henderson looks up to my perfect parents. With dependable jobs as a midwife and the town sheriff, they help this close-knit community feel safe. But the locals didn't grow up in my parents' house. They don't know what I know. And they wouldn't believe me if I told them..
  • An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A two-book mystery bundle by debut author Ava Strong and #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 1,000 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in two different series—the Ilse Beck FBI Suspense Thriller series by Ava Strong and the Adele Sharp Mystery series by Blake Pierce—all in one convenient place...
  • Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The woman everyone loves to hate is dead. Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking--until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent--the prime suspect in her murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Riverstar by Tess Thompson

    Riverstar by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After ending an affair with a married movie producer, feisty Hollywood makeup artist Bella Webber finds herself back in the quaint Oregon town of River Valley, the location of a famous director’s latest film...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

    Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.Then it starts...
  • House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

    House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to uncover who in the family is a victim and who is a murderer...
  • Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks

    Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dom 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 Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • If I Run by Molly Black

    If I Run by Molly Black

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI BAU Special Agent Ruby Hunter remains haunted by “The 13 Killer,” the serial killer who took everything from her—including her partner—before she put him away for good. Yet somehow, though behind bars, new bodies are showing up with his trademark 13 signature...
  • No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep.Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson’s younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes...
  • You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty

    You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Ex and Those Other Women comes a thrilling family drama about the secrets we keep, the lies we tell and the truths that won't stay hidden.The holidays are here. The extended family has gathered. The cars are packed and the convoy sets off.The cottage is a few hours' drive - but not everyone will live to see it ..
  • The Lodger by Valerie Keogh

    The Lodger by Valerie Keogh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s in your home…Leigh Simons can’t say for sure what made her do it. A moment of madness, perhaps, but when the young, loud and gorgeous waitress at her favorite coffee shop reveals she is homeless, Leigh offers her the empty room in her house.In your head…Gina is the perfect lodger; Leigh, lonely and frustrated with her life, becomes infatuated with the woman – her boldness, her zeal...
  • Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful...
  • Down the Darkest Road by Kylie Brant

    Down the Darkest Road by Kylie Brant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An obsessive killer, a witness with secrets, and a deputy US marshal with her own dark demons collide in this gripping mystery from the bestselling author of Cold Dark Places.Dylan was only a child when he and his friend stumbled onto a crime scene deep in the woods. His friend was killed that night. And Bruce Forrester, the man who had chased the boys in the woods, disappeared...
  • The Perfect Family Man by M.M. DeLuca

    The Perfect Family Man by M.M. DeLuca

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Five years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband’s vanished, too.I wish I could say that the tragedy of little Jack disappearing brought me and Nate closer together. But my husband is more distant from me now than he’s ever been. Perhaps that’s why I don’t ask him exactly where he’s going when he sets off on another business trip...
  • Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner

    Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A new marriage.A perfect home.A machine that says it’s all a lie.Welcome to Silicon Valley, where the weather is perfect, the income is high … and Rowena Snyder is miserable. A transplant from New York, Rowena moved into her husband Jacob’s idyllic childhood home with their new baby. But suburbia isn’t Rowena’s cup of Starbucks. And she’s got serious anxiety and depression to boot...
  • Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ever since they were children, Gillian Hearth has been her sister Frankie’s guardian, her sounding board, and her best friend. Together, the Hearth sisters quietly bury their secrets and form a formidable team during any crisis. Purchasing the old Blymhill house with the hopes of turning it into an artists’ retreat, the sisters are finally living their dream...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops ..
  • The Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen

    The Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They promised to tell their spouses they were leaving and then meet to begin their new life together. But he never shows up.A new twisting novel of psychological suspense from the acclaimed author of Gone Without a Trace.Coworkers Ruby and Harry are in love--but they're married to other people. They decide to tell their spouses that their marriages are over and to start their new lives together...
  • Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler

    Cause for Alarm by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cause For Alarm by Erica Spindler released on Jan 25, 1999 is available now for purchase...
  • The Lies We Hide by S.E. Lynes

    The Lies We Hide by S.E. Lynes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Thirty years ago, Nicola Watson lived with her parents and older brother in a respectable suburb...
  • Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

    Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An estranged mother and father join forces to uncover the truth about their missing daughter in a haunting novel about trauma, loss, family, and hope. When patrolman Brandon Hall comes upon a broken-down car on a Colorado highway, he finds a young girl in a bloodied nightgown at the wheel. In the back seat, the brutalized body of a teenage boy. The girl will say only one Hurt...
  • My Sister and Other Liars by Ruth Dugdall

    My Sister and Other Liars by Ruth Dugdall

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sam is seventeen, starving herself and longing for oblivion. Her sister, Jena, is mentally scarred and desperate to remember. Between them, they share secrets too terrible to recall. Eighteen months earlier, Sam was still full of hope: hope that she could piece together Jena's fragmented memory after the vicious attack that changed their family forever...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  amnesia  audiobook  book
  • My Little Girl by Shalini Boland

    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...
  • The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  drama
  • In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson

    In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You're at home with your family. You think you're safe. You're wrong... Ava's life is the kind other people envy: loving husband; great kids; beautiful house. Until the night a violent home invasion turns the dream into a nightmare, and leaves her beautiful daughter fighting to survive.And then things get worse. Ava realises that the attack wasn't random. Someone is targeting her family...
  • The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

    The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate.There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives...
  • Sister Sister by Sue Fortin

    Sister Sister by Sue Fortin

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar.Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous.Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac.Two sisters. One truth...
  • People Like Them by Minka Kent

    People Like Them by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Nobody’s perfect—although one beautiful couple certainly comes close. Discover the cracks beneath the polished surface in this unsettling short story from bestselling author Minka Kent.Veronica and Ryan Hartley are the envy of Auburn Drive. When the exclusive neighborhood hosts its annual progressive dinner party, the couple’s perfection is on display...
  • The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Golden Couple is an addictive page-turning psychological thriller from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the bestselling The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, that will keep you guessing to the very end.Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple . . . until Marissa cheats...
  • The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland

    The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Are you my mommy?Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children.Not anymore.She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own..
  • The Curfew by T.M. Logan

    The Curfew by T.M. Logan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Your son said he was home. WHY DID HE LIE? It's time to preorder the brand new up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick The Holiday, now a major TV Drama.I should have known something was wrong. I should have sensed it. Felt it in the air, like the build-up of pressure before a thunderstorm, that heavy, loaded calm...
  • The Widow by Valerie Keogh

    The Widow by Valerie Keogh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Grieving or guilty?When Allison’s wealthy and charming husband Peter is found dead, she appears distraught, devastated….delighted?Because despite an apparently picture-perfect marriage, Allison knows it was all built on a bed of lies.And as the truth regarding Peter’s life and death are revealed, Alison must try to keep her own dark past buried...
  • The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland

    The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nine 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...
  • His Kidnapper's Shoes by Maggie James

    His Kidnapper's Shoes by Maggie James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Daniel is my son. He has always been mine. And he always will be.On some level deep inside, Laura Bateman knows something is wrong. That her relationship with her son is not what it should be. That it is based on lies.But bad things have happened to Laura. Things that change a person. Forever...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • What It Seems by Emily Bleeker

    What It Seems by Emily Bleeker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A page-turning novel of suspense about the perfect family, and the perfect lies, by the bestselling author of When I’m Gone and The Waiting Room.Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, twenty-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world. Lonely, punished for the slightest offense, her only distraction comes from watching the Feely family’s online videos...
  • We Used To Live Here by Daniel Hurst

    We Used To Live Here by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every house has secrets. But not all of them stay buried forever...When the Burgess family move into their 'forever' home, it seems like they are set for many happy years together at their new address. Steph and Grant, along with their children, Charlie and Amelia, settle into their new surroundings quickly...
  • Blood Vines by Erica Spindler

    Blood Vines by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this bare-knuckled adrenaline ride from New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler, Alex Clarkson’s worst nightmares are about to come true… A sinister, hooded figure… When Alexandra Clarkson starts having terrifying visions filled with blood and ceremonial images, she tries to find a rational explanation – maybe her mind is playing tricks on her, resurrecting creepy tableaux from her...
  • Little Friends by Jane Shemilt

    Little Friends by Jane Shemilt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE STUNNING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB SENSATION DAUGHTERTheir children are friends first. They hit it off immediately, as kids do. And so the parents are forced to get to know each other. Three wildly different couples. Three marriages, floundering.There are barbecues, dinner parties, a holiday in Greece...
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