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  • Whisper by Dani René

    Whisper by Dani René

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the international bestselling author comes the story of two people who find out that sometimes fate does step in and play it's part. "Lust. It drives people to do things they normally wouldn't." A whisper is a secret that keeps you safe in the dark. It may hold truth, but it may bring about pain. When Eli said goodbye to love, he never counted on Gia...
  • The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

    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

    Obsession by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I 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

    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...
  • Someone Else's Baby by Ruby Speechley

    Someone Else's Baby by Ruby Speechley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She 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...
  • Ruthless by Dani René

    Ruthless by Dani René

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m an asshole. And I make no apologies for it. My life has been spent drenched in the blood of my enemies. Our family legacy, left only to me when my brother walked away. Women are pawns in a game for pleasure. Nothing more. Until her. Madison Parker. I’m enthralled. Captivated. But my past is far too dark. Pushing her away is my only option...
  • Turning Point Club Box Set by J.A. Huss

    Turning Point Club Box Set by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enter 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  billionaire  psychological  fiction  book  adult
  • 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...
  • The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge

    The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 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

    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 Man She Married by Alison James

    The Man She Married by Alison James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How 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...
    Categorized as:
    domestic-drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  death  fiction
  • A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch

    A Friend Like That by Marissa Finch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Who 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  family  fiction  psychological
  • 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...
  • When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred...
  • 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 Rebound: A Novel by J.R. Rogue

    The Rebound: A Novel by J.R. Rogue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some love affairs aren’t meant for the public eye. Some love affairs won’t survive the fallout. Calliope das Dores is not the perfect rebound, even if her name means "muse". She is not who I should be running to. But I want her anyway. She keeps telling me my squeaky-clean image can’t handle the scandal, but this want between us is not black and white, and it never will be...
    Categorized as:
    cheating  domestic-drama  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  book
  • Fade by Ashley Munoz

    Fade by Ashley Munoz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Laney: Jackson Tate and I are over. Done. Finished. Then again, how do you end something that never really started? Now, three months later we’re being thrown back together for the sake of an investigation and forced to coexist...
  • 20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst

    20 Minutes Later by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On 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

    My Wife Is Missing by D.J. Palmer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    11 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

    The Missing Widow by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I 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

    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 Girl on Gander Green Lane by M.J. Hardy

    The Girl on Gander Green Lane by M.J. Hardy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When 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...
  • Lost Child by D.S. Butler

    Lost Child by D.S. Butler

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She 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

    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...
  • The Phone Call by A.J. Campbell, Frazer Blaxland

    The Phone Call by A.J. Campbell, Frazer Blaxland

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    6 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

    The Guilty Husband by Stephanie DeCarolis

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It 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...
  • The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin

    The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Ainsley 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...
  • The Cheater's Wife: An Addictive Twisty Psychological Thriller by C.N. Mabry

    The Cheater's Wife: An Addictive Twisty Psychological Thriller by C.N. Mabry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She turned her husband’s betrayal into a second chance. Now, it might cost her everything.Camille Bell never wanted to raise her husband’s mistake. RJ, the son of Ryan’s most public betrayal, was a constant reminder of everything she lost—the picture-perfect life, the adoring husband, the future she was promised. But instead of casting him aside, she did what no one expected. She made him hers...
  • The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst

    The Doctor’s Wife by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He 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

    Tainted Love by Erin Cawood

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For 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

    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...
  • My Husband's Affair by Ruth Heald

    My Husband's Affair by Ruth Heald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We 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

    Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By 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

    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...
  • Unbreakable by Skye Callahan

    Unbreakable by Skye Callahan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Wowzers! Bend Don’t Break blew my mind...! This book is intense and I LOVED every minute of it.... Filled with action, adventure, drama, lies, secrets, betrayal and love…this book has it all!" – Kristin Elyon Book 2 of the Irrevocable Duet (formerly released as Bend, Don't Break) I thought I was done...
  • 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...
  • Lark Song by Jane Bailey

    Lark Song by Jane Bailey

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They want to move on—but one terrible truth could shatter it all.As a widowed mother of three, new love seems impossible for Freya—until she meets Duncan, and suddenly she feels alive again. But there are secrets afflicting Freya’s family, some more sinister than others, that could destroy their relationship before it has a chance to flourish...
  • Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott

    Shadow Sister by Lindsay Marcott

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From 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...
  • Two Dead Wives by Adele Parks

    Two Dead Wives by Adele Parks

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An 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

    The Couple’s Revenge by Daniel Hurst

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How 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

    The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daphne 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 Wife by Ellery A. Kane

    The Good Wife by Ellery A. Kane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My 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

    Every Breath You Take by Miranda Rijks

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Has 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  fiction  psychological  thriller  book  adult
  • 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...
  • My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis

    My Husband’s Secret by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I 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

    The Other Side of The Wall by Andrea Mara

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When 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...
  • The Daughter-in-Law by Shalini Boland

    The Daughter-in-Law by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Your 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

    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...
  • After the Wedding by Laura Elliot

    After the Wedding by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Everyone 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...
  • The Resort by M.J. Hardy

    The Resort by M.J. Hardy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When three women win a holiday in a Facebook competition, they think it’s by chance.It’s not.When one woman accompanies her husband on business, she thinks she’ll return with him.She won’t.Welcome to the resort, where nothing is as it seems.Invited guests testing the facilities before it opens its doors in one weeks’ time face some uncomfortable truths...
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