A fire breaks out in a home. Natalie, The Second Wife, escapes without injury. But her fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, Jade, has to be rescued by firemen. After awakening from a brief coma, Jade tells her father, Alex, she was hiding in her closet. But she wasn’t fleeing the fire. She saysContinue Reading
Sylvie and her daughter are back in southern France to sell the family’s house now owned by Sylvie and her sister Camille. The house has been abandoned for ten long years. Something has happened in the house in the past. A fire, perhaps? A child’s death? Has The Heatwave passedContinue Reading
Kayla is working at a restaurant near Boston. She has been taken in by Esteban, the bartender. Kayla can’t remember anything about her life before Esteban. She is The Quiet Girl. Her mind is filled with disturbing thoughts and images. Alex is the Chief Financial Officer of his best friend’sContinue Reading
Distasteful characters are full of Lies Lies Lies in this new domestic suspense tale. Daisy and Simon should be happy. They’ve been married since their youth. After some fertility issues, they were blessed with the perfect daughter, six-year-old Millie. Sure, Simon likes a drink, or ten, in the evening. AndContinue Reading
He Started It is another completely original sociopathic family thriller from the author of the serial killer couple thriller, My Lovely Wife. Road trip! Siblings Eddie, Beth, and Portia are recreating a road trip they had with their grandfather twenty years earlier as children. This time, their dead grandfather’s remainsContinue Reading
Hildy already has a full-time job working as a hospital social worker in rural Sorenson, Wisconsin. She decides to take a second job to ride along with Police Officer Devonshire (Devo for short) and her therapy dog, Roscoe on the Night Shift. Hildy is doing what all the Defund theContinue Reading
“I’m sorry to have to tell you that Theo isn’t your son. He’s mine.” said Miles to Pete. It seems that their now two-year-old sons were switched at birth in the hospital. And Miles has DNA evidence to prove it in Playing Nice, a new domestic thriller by the authorContinue Reading
Four female former college roommates go on a one-week vacation in France to celebrate their fortieth birthdays. They bring their spouses and children along. This is definitely The Vacation they will never forget. Despite being a Monday, I was desperately looking for an easy bee-itchy beach read. I needed aContinue Reading
In an attempt to bridge the looming gap between her daughter, twelve-year-old Thea, and herself, Anne rents a remote cabin for a girl’s weekend in the woods. She also brings along her own mother, Mimi. Can their combined Survival Instincts save them from this horror movie opening scene? Thea’s goalContinue Reading
In the new psychological thriller, Watching You Without Me, Karen returns home to Nova Scotia to close down her deceased mother’s house. But her original plans to put her “250-pound mentally handicapped” older sister, Kelli, in a group home are upended when she meets the charismatic caregiver, Trevor. The pacingContinue Reading
Life. It’s complicated. On her fortieth birthday, Livia has a secret—maybe more than one—to share at her birthday party. What is The Dilemma that has Livia so frazzled? Adam and Livia are dating the summer between high school and college when Livia ends up pregnant. Livia’s parents disown her endingContinue Reading
In The Swap, teenager Low Morrison has found a new best friend in former social influencer, Freya Light. Freya looked at Low like “I was not simply a misfit teenager, tall and awkward and outcast. I was a kindred spirit. Freya and I had a soul connection.” Low begins toContinue Reading
Charlotte, aka Charlie, finds a drowned Stranger in the Lake in front of her southern Appalachian home. Charlotte is more concerned for her recent husband, Paul. After all, his wife drowned in the same location not too long ago. Even though Paul denies knowing the stranger, Charlotte saw him talkingContinue Reading
From the author of Jar of Hearts comes another twisty domestic suspense novel writ large, Little Secrets. “The FBI estimates that there are currently over thirty thousand active missing person cases for children.” Marin is shopping with her four-year-old son, Sebastian, in Seattle’s touristy Pike’s Place Market. Her husband, Derek,Continue Reading
Patty is released from prison after five long years. And her estranged daughter, her Darling Rose Gold, picks Patty up. It’s the least she can do. After all, it’s Rose Gold’s fault that Patty went to prison. She didn’t have to testify. Patty was just trying to be a goodContinue Reading
The Twin is a new young adult domestic thriller. Sixteen-year-old Ivy and Iris are twins. After their parents’ divorce, Iris moved in with her mother and Ivy stayed put with her father. When their mother dies in a freak accident, Iris moves back in with her father and Ivy. ButContinue Reading