"As a celebrity assistant, Stevie Young guards the lies, scandals, and personal drama of the famous elite. Maintaining discretion is just part of her job description. When she begins working for renowned celebrity couple Dean Bennington and Lana Lim, Stevie feels like she has hit the jackpot. Both stars are prolific and refreshingly unpretentious, not to mention the objects of public obsession.
When Lana suffers a mysterious injury, the incident calls into question everything Stevie previously thought. Lana's accident sets an explosive chain of events into motion. The following weeks reveal a life shrouded in deception with a perilous web of deceit at its core. As Stevie falls even deeper into Dean and Lana's orbit, she begins to realize that nothing is what it seems.
The closer Stevie gets to the pair, the less she knows what—and who—to believe. As the investigation continues, Stevie will stop at nothing to sift through the lies, uncover the real story, and bring the shocking truth to light."
"Struggling writer Wren Lee hasn't slept properly in eighteen months. Not since the car accident that derailed her entire life. The night she still can't fully remember. So when she receives a surprise inheritance from her estranged grandfather, a house in rural Virginia seems like the escape Wren desperately needs.
But the grand mansion she arrives at is nothing like she hoped. From the moment Wren arrives, something feels wrong. A strange lullaby echoes through the maze-like hallways at night and Ruth, the housekeeper who still sets a place at dinner for a dead man, watches Wren with an intensity that goes beyond protective. Unwelcome and unsettled, Wren is determined to uncover the house's secrets, starting with the forbidden east wing...
Then the storm hits, and Wren is trapped with no way out. To survive, she'll have to confront not only the darkness in these walls but the buried truth about the night that broke her. Because in this house, the past doesn't stay buried. And neither do its ghosts.
A completely gripping and twisty gothic thriller that will bewitch fans of Mexican Gothic, The Sanatorium and Sharp Objects.
Readers love Danielle M. Wong’s thrillers:
“What. A. Wild. Ride. Seriously, you’re going to need a moment (or two) to catch your breath after finishing… The most exhilarating roller coaster in the world would be no match for this book… I was captivated from the start.” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Each revelation is better than the next. I just couldn’t help but gasp. And the end, now that is the twist of all twists!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Twists you don't see coming! The biggest twist? Absolutely jaw-dropping and completely unexpected! If that doesn’t make you want to pick this 5 star book up and start reading it, nothing will!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Well this was bloody good!!!! Wow I actually never would have seen this one going where it did. I loved it, wouldn’t change a thing, fantastic!!!” Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"
"I have always been drawn to tiny, wild things…
Journalist Fran Hendrix thinks she's about to get the scoop of her career. A reclusive artist has chosen her to take his first interview since the tragic death of his wife years before. Not long after arriving at his secluded country estate, Fran receives a shocking anonymous message. He is lying to you. Get out while you can.
But Fran is a journalist. She's not going anywhere till she gets her story, even when her host's behavior becomes more unsettling by the day. Though she's meant to be asking the questions, he seems to know things about her she's tried to keep hidden, like how sometimes she has blackouts, and her macabre dreams of chasing wild rabbits through the woods.
When he insists they take a hunting trip together, dark memories begin to surface in fragments. Suddenly it’s clear Fran was chosen for a reason – and she should have run while she still had the chance…
An utterly gripping psychological thriller from an award-winning author that will delight fans of The Hunting Party, The Silent Patient and Sharp Objects."
"Amelia Cole―Lia for short―is one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life. Lia quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring actress and hardheaded protester. Scarlett introduces her to an exciting gender-equality movement with high stakes. But when their secret love clashes with political uprising, their relationship is one of the casualties.
Years later, Lia’s only memories of Scarlett are obscured by the glossy billboards she sees advertising the actress’s new films. But when a mysterious letter surfaces, she is immediately thrown back into their unsettled romance. Lia’s travels span oceans and continents in her search for Scarlett. Spread across time and place, their story is one of desire, adventure, and, ultimately, devotion. Lia will stop at nothing to win Scarlett back, but she soon realizes that uncovering lost love might not be attainable after all."
"A woman wakes up from a coma with no memory of the last decade, only to discover that she is the prime suspect in the murder of a husband she can’t remember.
When Veronica Lewis wakes up in a Nevada hospital, the doctors tell her that she was badly injured in a car accident. She claims to be a college student at New York University, but a quick call to the admissions department reveals that she graduated years ago. Vonny has no memory of the past decade and no idea what she was doing in Nevada.
The situation intensifies when a pair of detectives shows up at the hospital. They inform Vonny that her husband, John, was recently found dead. The detectives reveal that he was murdered in an alleyway and want to begin questioning her immediately. But Vonny doesn’t remember the man she allegedly married or the sybaritic life they shared together in San Francisco.
As a homicide investigation ensues, Vonny becomes a prime suspect. She must piece back together the last decade in order to clear her name. This missing chunk of time holds secrets about the person she has become, the mysterious man she married, and the life she never wanted."
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