Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met
as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are
as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone
else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this?
As the novel cuts back and forth between
their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why
these women love and hate each other—but can feelings that strong lead
to murder? Or will everyone assume, as is
often the case, that it’s always the husband?
The next chilling, propulsive novel from the NYT and USA Today bestselling author of
Behind Closed Doors. If you can’t trust yourself, who can you
trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the
woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the
woman sitting inside—the woman who was killed.
She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have
done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm.
Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to
take that shortcut home. And she probably
would only have been hurt herself if she’d stopped.
But since then, she’s been forgetting
every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the
alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn’t have a baby. The
only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman
she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt. Or the silent
calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her….
Everyone remembers the summer after
college, a time in life when everything is a possibility and heartbreak
is never too near. Heather has graduated from college and is traveling
around Europe with her two best friends. She’s
left school responsibility behind and adult responsibility is looming,
but this is her one, ONE last summer to be free. Heather doesn’t expect
to even meet Jack, let alone fall in love with him. Jack is an enigmatic
Vermonter a few years older than she is,
who is following his grandfather’s journal to various cities around
Europe. But in the same way that forces are bringing Jack and Heather
together, life and duty are pushing them apart. And Jack has a secret
that is going to change absolutely everything.
When an unfortunate accident forces Honor
back into the lives of her widowed daughter-in-law, Jo, and her only
granddaughter, Lydia, she cannot wait to be well enough to get back to
her own home. However, the longer she stays
with Jo and Lydia, the more they start to feel like a real family. But
each of the three women is keeping secrets from the others that threaten
to destroy the lives they’ve come to know. One summer’s day,
grandmother, mother and daughter’s secrets will be
forced out in the open in a single dramatic moment that leaves them all
asking: is there such a thing as second chances?