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  • One Foot in the Grave by Denise Grover Swank

    One Foot in the Grave by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third book in the Carly Moore series by Denise Grover Swank.The dead can’t speakAfter months of living in the Smoky Mountains town of Drum, Tennessee, Carly knows firsthand the financial hardship the citizens face. Still, she can’t muster the same excitement as everyone else when town patriarch Bart Drummond breaks ground on his new resort that promises more jobs and money...
  • Dirty Money by Denise Grover Swank

    Dirty Money by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Violet Gardner Beauregard is barely cold in her grave, but she’s still stirring up trouble. When Neely Kate Coulson accompanies her best friend Rose to Violet’s attorney for the reading of the will, they get the shock of their lives, one that leaves them both reeling...
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    drama  family  female-mc  realistic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Gone Too Far by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This second entry in USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series proves that sometimes the past is best left forgotten.As veteran detectives of the Birmingham Police Department, Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco have seen it all. So when the city’s new hotshot deputy district attorney turns up dead as part of a double homicide, the partners immediately get to work...
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    suspense  crime  drama  family  female-mc  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Kill by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Reformed assassin Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has many hidden dangers...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy...
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    crime  drama  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal

    The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherited a centuries-old English estate—and a title to go with it. Raw with grief and reeling from the knowledge that her reserved mother hid something so momentous, Olivia leaves San Francisco and crosses the pond to unravel the mystery of a lifetime...
  • Change of Tides by Ashley Farley

    Change of Tides by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Second Chances and New RomancesBirdie Fuller doesn’t like change. And a lot of change is happening at once. Her daughter and three-year-old grandson are moving out of her apartment to a nearby city. Will Birdie be able to survive the loneliness without Hannah and Gus? She joins a dating website to find companionship and meets the seemingly perfect man...
  • Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Playing Dirty by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are sworn to protect and serve. The Christmas season brings out the best—and worst—in people, and death hits close to home when a Bloody Mary local is murdered. Bringing justice to the dead is what they do—even when they don’t like the victim...
  • Reign of Royal by Samantha Barrett

    Reign of Royal by Samantha Barrett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    YWhen the card is dropped, you are marked.There is no escaping them, they come for their prey and will hunt until your blood soaks the ground beneath your cold lifeless body. They are the new generation and they have something to prove...
  • Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

    Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Beautifully captures the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.James Patterson has written a love story!--a powerfully moving and suspenseful novel about families, loss, new love, and hope. Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last...
  • Somewhere Only We Know by Barbara Freethy

    Somewhere Only We Know by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    #1 NY Times Bestselling Author delivers a romantic, emotional and suspenseful novel in SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW. Firefighter Burke Callaway has been living in the shadows since the tragic death of his fiancée. He had no interest in coming out of the dark, until the beautiful and unpredictable Maddie came back to town...
  • The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking! The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it...
  • Trapped by Irene Hannon

    Trapped by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When librarian Laura Griffin's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving only a brief note behind, Laura resolves to do whatever it takes to track down the runaway teen. That includes recruiting ATF agent turned PI James "Dev" Devlin to help. But the deeper he digs, the more he begins to suspect that something sinister is at work in the girl's disappearance...
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    crime  drama  family  realistic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs with a moving story about rebuilding your life when you've got nothing left to lose  Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her "perfect" life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, her husband was arrested for attacking three women...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  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...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Fearless by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Fearless by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life teeters in the balance when tragedy strikes the small mountain town of McKenzie Ridge… Everly Shaw’s world takes a direct hit leaving her battling demons she thought she buried long ago. A daredevil at heart that throws caution to the wind, the only risk she wouldn’t gamble on was love...
  • The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The House of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Debra Burroughs... P.I. Emily Parker and sexy police detective Colin Andrews are back, along with their close circle of friends. The House of Lies is Book 7 and you are in for another exciting and dangerous murder mystery with a thrilling dose of romance. Emily is fighting to clear the prime murder suspect while Colin is working to put him in jail...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Desperate, Laura turns to a man she met once five years ago: Emma's real father...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  realistic  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel

    Neighbors: A Novel by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel, a reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

    In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE BOND OF SISTERHOOD For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes to help women escape abusive relationships...
  • A Lowcountry Wedding by Mary Alice Monroe

    A Lowcountry Wedding by Mary Alice Monroe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s next novel in the “distinct, complex, and endearing” ( Charleston Magazine ) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Charleston Lowcountry. Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding—or two!—in Charleston’s fabled lowcountry...
  • True North by M.E. Montgomery

    True North by M.E. Montgomery

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alex and Kayla have found in each other what they need to move moved beyond the tragedies of their pasts and are ready to embrace their future together. But the problem with the past is it doesn’t always agree to be left behind, and sometimes it follows, unwilling to let go. Now everything they thought they knew to be true is suddenly turned up on end...
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    family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Retaliation by Mimi Barbour

    Retaliation by Mimi Barbour

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A virgin librarian with hot-chick potential, the conflicts in her story won’t let you put the book down. Be prepared for an all-nighter… She watches the mob kill her twin and is too frozen with fear to stop them. How can she live with that cowardice eating away at her self-respect? Revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she can’t breathe. Though she’s naïve, she isn’t stupid...
  • Cut in Darkness by Heather Sunseri

    Cut in Darkness by Heather Sunseri

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An outlaw biker gang, a US Senator hell-bent on vengeance, and a killer blend of heroin. None is as dangerous to Agent Brooke Fairfax as falling for Declan O'Roark...
  • Diamond Days by Suzanne Steele

    Diamond Days by Suzanne Steele

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When shots ring out at a wedding, it leaves the Glazov family wondering if they are up against their most dangerous enemy to date--an insider... This is the first time the family has ever faced a betrayal from within. Told in third person past tense, all the couples make an appearance, with Glazov being the strong lead...
  • Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

    Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Spend the coldest days of winter on a Caribbean beach with New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Join New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand on the stunning beaches of St. John for the beginning of her thrilling new winter series-The Paradise...
  • 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...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The Perfect Murder by Brenda Novak

    The Perfect Murder by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For more than a year, Sebastian Costas has been trying to unravel the truth behind the murder of his ex-wife and son. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, he's convinced that her second husband—a cop—committed both murders, then faked his own death. Now Sebastian has followed the slimmest of leads to Sacramento…and that's where he finally gets the break he needs...
  • A Field of Poppies by Sharon Sala

    A Field of Poppies by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two families. One secret. Separated by a river and twenty years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler’s life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother’s battle with cancer was finally over. Tock. The police showed up at her door. Her father’s body has just been pulled from the River. Tick. Murdered. Tick, Tock. Five minutes and a secret is coming undone...
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    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Forgotten by Mariah Stewart

    Forgotten by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Passions of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky

    The Passions of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old Chelsea Kane is consumed by the need to uncover her biological heritage. Taking a break from her successful architecture career, she arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, determined to learn the truth, her only clue a tarnished silver key...
  • Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse

    Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cheltenham, 1991 When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'. Until then, Eva always believed her family's life would be comfortable and secure - but Flora's suicide changes everything...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

    Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Would you cross the street if wickedness lived there? When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Guest...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson

    When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers...
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    crime  drama  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr

    The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    OVERALL MATTE Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins--they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then..
  • Flight Patterns by Karen White

    Flight Patterns by Karen White

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be....   Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying to forget her own...
  • Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

    Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
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    suspense  drama  crime  family  realistic  female-mc  romance  fiction
  • What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

    What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, where secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky. A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash...
  • Kade by Delores Fossen

    Kade by Delores Fossen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One look at the baby girl, and there was no question Kade Ryland was the father. For three months, Kade had posed as Bree Winston's husband at the Fulbright Fertility Clinic, while the two FBI agents investigated a trail of illegal adoptions and surrogates. Nine months later, a baby was dropped at his feet - and Bree was nowhere to be found...
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    crime  family  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Crikey a Bodyguard by Kathryn Freeman

    Crikey a Bodyguard by Kathryn Freeman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fun heart-warming read. Perfect for Spring! Fabulous new book from the best selling author of Oh Crumbs and Too Damn Nice. Highly recommended. She’s got the brains, he’s got the muscle … When Kelly Bridge’s parents insist on employing a bodyguard for her protection, she’s not happy...
  • Trust Me by Romily Bernard

    Trust Me by Romily Bernard

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Jay Asher called Find Me “a thriller that keeps picking up speed,” while New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan hailed Romily Bernard as “an exceptional new voice in YA.” Now in paperback!Trust Me is the thrilling conclusion to the Find Me trilogy, in which loose ends come together and chilling plot twists complicate Wick Tate’s life more than ever...
  • Night Tales by Nora Roberts

    Night Tales by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Boyd Fletcher's Night Shift assignment to protect vulnerable Cilia O'Roarke is fraught with danger... especially to his heart. Prosecutor Deborah O'Roarke suspects a link between enigmatic Gage Guthrie and a heroic phantom who lurks in Night Shadow. Lieutenant Althea Grayson and P.I. Colt Nightshade butt heads and hearts, tracking a killer...
  • A Mother's Conviction by Karen Lenfestey

    A Mother's Conviction by Karen Lenfestey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Single mom Bethany Morris loves her 6-year-old foster daughter, Willow, as if she were her own. When Willow’s real mother is released early from prison, Bethany isn’t ready to let the little girl go. Trying to justify her reluctance to say good-bye, she digs into the mother’s shady past and struggles to deal with what she finds out...
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    drama  family  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Biker Bound by Ellie R Hunter

    Biker Bound by Ellie R Hunter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Lost Souls MC Series Book 3 The Raging Riders are no longer a threat to the Lost Souls MC. For six months life has been quiet and everyone is enjoying the peace. However, trouble is never far where the club is concerned. One by one the brothers find themselves targets from an unknown enemy. Someone is out to destroy the Lost Souls MC and everyone connected to them...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  secrets  suspense  adult  biker  book  children
  • Mending Fences by Sherryl Woods

    Mending Fences by Sherryl Woods

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two families--bound by friendship-- devastated by secretsFor ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever...
  • When Wishes Collide by Barbara Freethy

    When Wishes Collide by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a moment of desperation two strangers make a wish, only to discover that sometimes a wish can take you down an unexpected path ... straight toward a life-changing love. WHEN WISHES COLLIDE, Book #3 in the WISH Series, is an emotionally compelling and suspenseful contemporary romance by #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak

    The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One afternoon in May, Zoe Duncan's thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing from her own backyard. The police think Samantha ran away because she's unhappy about her mother's upcoming marriage—but Zoe doesn't believe it. In fact, she's willing to do anything to bring Sam home, even if it means losing her job, her beautiful home, her fiancé...
  • A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards

    A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All her life Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy’s achievements, she didn’t even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice.Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
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