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  • One Moment by Linda Green

    One Moment by Linda Green

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Finn and Kaz are about to meet for the first time. Ten-year-old Finn, a quirky, sensitive boy who talks a lot and only eats at cafes with a 5-star hygiene rating, is having a tough time at school and home. Outspoken Kaz, 59, who has an acerbic sense of humour and a heart of gold, is working at the café when Finn and his mum come in...
  • 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...
  • The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She'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...
  • Water by John Boyne

    Water by John Boyne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer...
  • Break Him by Nicki Grace

    Break Him by Nicki Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MY HUSBAND IS PLANNING to leave me soon and he thinks that I don’t know. Can you believe that after 14 years of marriage and 3 kids, he simply wants to discard me like I am trash? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Throughout our entire marriage he lies and I ignore it, he cheats and I still stand by his side, but now he has double crossed me and dragging him through a mess divorce simply won't cut deep enough...
  • Last Seen by Lucy Clarke

    Last Seen by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In 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

    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 Baby by A.J. McDine

    The Baby by A.J. McDine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a baby in your house. It isn’t yours…The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family.One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer...
  • The Night Nanny by Nelle Lamarr

    The Night Nanny by Nelle Lamarr

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Please don’t worry, Ava. Your baby is safe with me. I’m going to take care of her like she’s my own…”Ever since my daughter Isa was born, I’ve been struggling. I can’t remember anything, and my brain is in a fog. So when my husband Ned suggests we hire a night nanny, I leap at the chance.As soon as she walks into our home, I feel a wave of relief...
  • The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman

    The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of If Only I Could Tell You comes the story of two women determined to uncover the truth. But how can you trust the present if you can't remember the past?“Left me gasping. Brilliant.” —Alex Michaelides“Has one of the best story twists I have ever read…superb writing.” —Ruth Jones“Resonates long after you turn the final page...
  • 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...
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  • 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...
  • The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    The Perfect Getaway by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was the trip of a lifetime…until someone ended up dead. When four couples receive invitations to try out a luxury island resort, they are excited for a week of relaxation and reconnecting.For some, it’s the honeymoon they never had the chance to take.For others, it’s a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage...
  • My Sister's Husband by Nicola Marsh

    My Sister's Husband by Nicola Marsh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The sunroom at the back of the house is just as I remember. I can’t taste homemade lemonade or smell oatmeal cookies without thinking of home, of the beautiful cliffs of Martino Bay, and I feel welcomed. But all thoughts of a happy family reunion are destroyed the moment I see him… He’s as handsome as I remember: broad shoulders, piercing blue eyes, hair the colour of burnt toffee...
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    female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • The Marriage Betrayal by Shalini Boland

    The Marriage Betrayal by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ‘Daddy has been lying.’ Faye Townsend has planned the perfect summer trip for her family. But returning to the small seaside town her husband grew up in does not go to plan, the rain pours and the long days become stifling. And then the unthinkable happens… Her husband Jake and her six-year-old son Dylan go for an early morning walk along the beautiful, windswept clifftops. They don’t come back...
  • The Baby Shower by S.E. Lynes, Tamsin Kennard

    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...
  • Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end...
  • Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. Filthy rich...
  • She Won't Leave by James Caine

    She Won't Leave by James Caine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She 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...
  • The Engagement by Samantha Hayes

    The Engagement by Samantha Hayes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You 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...
  • The Narrator by K.L. Slater

    The Narrator by K.L. Slater

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What 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...
  • Positively Murder by Netta Newbound

    Positively Murder by Netta Newbound

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Melissa May, happily married to Gavin for the best part of thirty years, life couldn’t get much better. Her world is ripped apart when she discovers Gavin is HIV positive. The shock of his duplicity and irresponsible behaviour re-awakens a psychiatric condition Melissa has battled since childhood...
  • 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...
  • Third Party by Brandi Reeds

    Third Party by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is it murder? Is someone playing mind games? Or is it both? The chilling answers are in this twisting novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Trespassing.The apparent suicide of a beautiful aspiring law student unites two strangers, connected only by their tangled suspicions: that nothing about Margaux Stritch’s tragic end is what it looks like...
  • 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...
  • Don't Blink by L.G. Davis

    Don't Blink by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    *This book was previously published under the titles The Girl in the Rain and The Girl in the Storm.* Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep. He survived the attack, but never fully recovered from the trauma. Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a paraplegic...
  • Circle of Doubt by Tracy Buchanan

    Circle of Doubt by Tracy Buchanan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She thought she was the perfect mother—until the new neighbours moved in.Emma and Dele’s dreams came true nine years ago when they adopted their daughter, Isla. It felt like fate, like they were meant to find each other, and now they’re living the life they always wanted...
  • The Family Trap by Lorna Dounaeva

    The Family Trap by Lorna Dounaeva

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Prudence welcomed Zoe into her home. Now she’s fighting to survive.Two simple words shatter Prudence Ahern’s world - “I’m pregnant.”Her son Nathan is only eighteen when his new girlfriend Zoe drops that little bombshell. Prudence feels she has to support her son and asks Zoe to move in with them.Right from the start, Prudence knows something isn’t right...
  • The Life She Wants by J.M. Hewitt

    The Life She Wants by J.M. Hewitt

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Paula wants to save her marriage, and she hopes a romantic cruise vacation will help. But the more she learns about the mysterious Anna, a new woman Paula and her husband meet on the ship, the more Paula realizes that Anna wants to destroy it. But why?Paula worries that her marriage to Tommy is barely hanging on, so when he suggests a getaway for the two of them, she's thrilled...
  • 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...
  • The Break by Katie Sise

    The Break by Katie Sise

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Can 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...
  • The Ex by Freida McFadden

    The Ex by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Cassie thinks she has met the perfect man. Joel is sweet, handsome, romantic, and best of all, he’s crazy about Cassie. She thinks she’s found the guy she’ll spend the rest of her life with. Have children with. Grow old with. Yes, she knows about his perfect ex-girlfriend, Francesca. The beautiful, brilliant chef, beloved by all his friends. But she thinks Francesca is out of the picture...
  • Not My Mother by Miranda Smith

    Not My Mother by Miranda Smith

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you?I’d heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother’s arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying by the swimming pool, the open window in the nursery. But I never dreamed it had anything to do with me.Today, my beautiful daughter turned one...
  • 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 Accident by Natalie Barelli

    The Accident by Natalie Barelli

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If only she'd said no... Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway... Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine’s life...
  • The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart

    The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What happens when you open your home to the perfect stranger?Anna Klein is ready to return to work as a literary agent for the first time since having children. She and her husband, Josh, decide to hire a live-in nanny with some trepidation, but all their misgivings disappear as soon as they meet Oaklynn Durst. She has stellar references, a calm disposition, and a natural way with children...
  • After She Left by Claire Amarti

    After She Left by Claire Amarti

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Abigail Gibson is gone. The morning after Christmas Day, she walks out of her home in the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York, leaving behind a strange note on the kitchen table… and her ten-year-old son, Sam.When her sister Gillian gets the call, she can barely believe it...
  • The Midnight Wife by L.G. Davis

    The Midnight Wife by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She has a new life and a loving husband, but will her secrets ruin everything? Kelsey Bloom has been living a perfect lie, hiding in plain sight from the past that broke her.Everything is going according to plan. She has made herself at home in the small town of Sanlow, Montana, and her life seems perfect from the outside…… until she’s attacked by someone who claims to know her secrets...
  • 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...
  • The Wife Lie by Anya Mora

    The Wife Lie by Anya Mora

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My husband is missing.And his wife is on my doorstep.The wife I never knew he had.Does that mean my husband's out looking for wife number three?The more I dig... the more I find.Ledger Stone is not the man I thought I knew.What I'd thought was a whirlwind romance has turned out to be a hurricane laced with lies.It started with one...
  • The Happiness In Between: A Novel by Grace Greene

    The Happiness In Between: A Novel by Grace Greene

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman returns home to hide from her past mistakes and discovers one more chance at happiness. Sandra Hurst has left her husband. Again. After dropping out of college to marry Trent, divorcing him, then remarrying him, she’s shown up on her parents’ doorstep nursing her wounds. But her parents refuse to help this time—emotionally or financially...
  • Valentina by S.E. Lynes

    Valentina by S.E. Lynes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Glasgow journalist Shona McGilvery moves with her partner Mikey and their baby to an idyllic cottage in rural Scotland, they believe that all that lies ahead of them is happiness.But with Mikey working offshore, the  frightening  isolation of the Aberdeenshire  countryside begins to drive her insane...That is, until she is rescued by a new friendship with the enchanting Valentina...
  • My Daughter's Secret by Nicole Trope

    My Daughter's Secret by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My baby girl, I’ll never forget you – your smile, your laugh, the way your hair sparkles in the sun. I cannot comprehend this pain. I cannot breathe through it.In the middle of the night, Claire wakes up to discover that her beloved daughter, Julia, is dead – and life, as she knows it, is over...
  • The Girl in the Woods by Lorna Dounaeva

    The Girl in the Woods by Lorna Dounaeva

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She finally had the family she had always wanted, so why did she feel as though someone had stepped on her grave?Suzannah and Noel are desperate for a child so when they get the chance to adopt a young girl called Orchid, they jump at the chance. They have been warned that it will take time for Orchid to settle into their family, but the problems they encounter seem out of the ordinary...
  • 20 Minutes On The Tube by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes On The Tube by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first book in the bestselling 20 Minute Series... "Original and addictive, I read it in a day!" 20 Minutes. 20 People. 20 different reasons to be underground... Louise didn't plan on stealing until she realised she could get away with it. Anke gave her husband a second chance but now she wants revenge. Valentin has an urge to kill and is using his commute to find his first victim...
  • The Insomniac by Miranda Rijks

    The Insomniac by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Daisy can’t sleep. But the cure is her worst nightmare.Daisy hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in years. Her chronic insomnia has gotten so bad, it’s affecting her job as a journalist. So she’s delighted when she’s asked to review a new, luxurious sleep clinic - this could be the answer to her prayers...
  • Prom Queen by Laura Wolfe

    Prom Queen by Laura Wolfe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bailey stood on the stage, her crown glittering under the high school lights as she blew kisses to those glaring beneath her. Despite the celebrations, something didn’t feel right. She wasn’t supposed to be prom queen, and someone would make her pay for it…Twenty years ago, my best friend, Bailey , was found dead by the train tracks, half of our friendship locket missing from her pale neck...
  • The Stay-at-Home Mother by Nicole Trope

    The Stay-at-Home Mother by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her chest tightens, her heart speeding up. The kitchen is chaos. She steps on something hard, and looks down. Toy dinosaurs are scattered everywhere. But her son is nowhere – her baby boy is gone.The police arrive. She can’t look at her husband. Instead, she studies the network of lines on her shaking hands.Then her phone beeps with a voice message. ‘Listen to it on speaker,’ says the detective...
  • Fallen by Carey Baldwin

    Fallen by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A body just fell from the sky onto Hollywood Boulevard. When a beautiful prostitute is dumped onto the Walk of Fame, FBI profiler Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in to solve one of their most baffling cases yet...
  • The Breakdown by Arianne Richmonde

    The Breakdown by Arianne Richmonde

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One day she had the perfect life. The next it was gone…I stand at the very edge of the cliff face, looking at the roaring ocean below my feet. I’m in no danger, in fact my husband and his sister talk just feet away from me, watching my every move.Behind them sits a place my husband refers to as our summer house. Apparently it’s my favorite place in the world, not that I can remember...
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