![]() ![]() A missing baby? Unreliable characters? Deceit, lies and blackmail? More twists and turns than a rollercoaster? Yes please!Īnne and Marco decide to leave their infant daughter at home while they attend a neighbors dinner party. This blurb is the thing my reading dreams are made of. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family-a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they’ve kept for years. ![]() Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. People are capable of almost anything.Īnne and Marco Conti seem to have it all-a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. ![]() How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even-yourself? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Carlynn Kling Shire is a healer, and according to Joelle's parents, she saved Joelle's life when she was an infant. Torn by guilt and the impossibility of the situation, Joelle seeks help from someone she's not entirely sure she believes in. And little by little, day by day, the friendship and caring between them becomes something more. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only other person who understands her pain: Mara's husband, Liam.īrought together by their mutual devastation over Mara's condition, Joelle and Liam comfort each other as they sit by Mara's bedside in a nursing home. But when something goes terribly wrong during the delivery, Mara is left with brain damage. They have shared everything, including the joy over Mara's first pregnancy. Mara Sommers and Joelle D'Angelo have been best friends for several years. ![]() ![]() ![]() May 2010: Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley.March 2015: My Secret Guide to Paris by Lisa Schroeder.March 2011: The Body Finder series by Kimberly Derting.March 2010: The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg.June 2014: The Stepsister’s Tale by Tracy Barrett.July 2014: Brazen by Katherine Longshore.July 2013: The Watchers Series by Veronica Wolff.July 2012: Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear.July 2011: The Revenant by Sonia Gensler.July 2010: The Naughty List by Suzanne Young.February 2015: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios.February 2013: The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd. ![]()
![]() ![]() As Victor and Sarai slowly build a trust, the differences between them seem to lessen, and an unlikely attraction intensifies. As they grow closer, he finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive even his relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like everyone else wants Sarai dead. While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help Sarai. But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. ![]() Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years. ![]() Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. ![]() ![]() During the sixteen hours of narrative time, the characters move through their day in Dublin, interacting with a stunning variety of individuals, most of whom are fictional but some of whom represent actual people. ![]() ![]() The narrative ends some twenty-four hours later, when Stephen, having politely refused lodgings at the home of two other principal characters, Leopold and Molly Bloom, discovers he is no longer welcome to stay with Mulligan and Haines. ![]() on Thursday, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, when one of its major participants, young Stephen Dedalus, awakens and interacts with his two housemates, the egotistical medical student, Buck Mulligan, and the overly reserved English student, Haines. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Meggie in The Thorn Birds is basically my mother. ![]() McCullough always had an interesting relationship with the story though, admitting that she actually hated her main character. ![]() "Ward couldn't act her way out of a paper bag and Chamberlain wandered about all wet and wide-eyed," McCullough revealed. As the writer of the original book, she obviously understands the characters better than anyone, so her words about the performances were especially cutting. Perhaps the miniseries harshest critic was McCullough. "I was so in love with her and I loved working with Rachel so much, I couldn’t believe that there was any talk about us not getting along," Chamberlain said. Ward did have one big fan though, Chamberlain admitted that he was stunned when there were rumors they didn't get along, because he was completely smitten with her. "I felt that despite me it was a success."īut decades later, her daughter saw the series and said she was "fabulous." "That was, for me, the most important response that I could’ve ever had." "I felt terribly like I’d disappointed ," she said. Meggie was obviously a very important character, but Ward received a lot of criticism for her portrayal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when Sylvie suddenly goes missing in the Netherlands, where she was last seen visiting her grandmother on her deathbed, Amy knows she must set out in search of her. ![]() These two daughters of Chinese immigrants have very different beginnings and personalities, but they are devoted to each other. Aged nine, she returned to her parents and baby sister, Amy. Sylvie spent the early years of her life in the Netherlands with their relatives, the Tans, while her parents scraped together a living in New York. Remove the extra and that’s me: ordinary.” With her Harvard degree, high-powered consultancy job and wealthy American husband, in Amy’s mind, “Sylvie is extraordinary. Amy Lee believes that her older sister, Sylvie, is everything she can never hope to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will change your life and your world by changing your beliefs. 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