A seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood is upended when a provocative single mother saunters onto the school playground for the first time. Her Doc Marten boots, tight T-shirts, and in-your-face attitude stir up buried fears and sexual anxiety. In the dark corners of her home, a woman battles crippling memories that threaten to destroy the family she wants so desperately to protect. A suspicious death forces her best friend to make a hard choice between marriage and friendship. Amy Lewis has kept her fears under control since she married Justin, but an unconventional single mother and a series of rapes are stirring up memories of her traumatic childhood. She pleads with her best friend and her husband to understand how she feels, but they're fast becoming unsympathetic. Will either of them succeed in helping her escape the darkness gripping her mind? Charlotte Whittington wants a quiet life for her daughter and a chance to succeed as a photographer. She didn't think about how a group of suburban women might react to her offbeat photographs, but she's not going to let them intimidate her. Rachel Matthews doesn't realize how lucky she is to be married to a man like Greg. He loves everything about her, he makes her laugh, and he's a devoted Dad, but Rachel is too blinded by her fixation on her female friends to notice how lucky she is. Paranoia, jealousy, and maternal instinct collide, leading to the demise of the soccer moms.
Author
Cathryn is the author of over thirty psychological suspense novels including the ALEXANDRA MALLORY series, featuring a sociopath you can’t help but love. Readers have called the series “addictive”. The things that cause torment in real life—obsession and revenge, guilt and envy and longing—are endlessly fascinating in fiction and she never grows tired of writing stories about characters struggling to overcome the worst. Cathryn also writes ghost stories because who knows what lies beyond our senses—The Haunted Ship Trilogy and the Madison Keith series of novellas. When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading, walking on the beach, or playing golf, going way out of her way to avoid hitting her ball in the sand or the water. She lives on the Central California Coast with her husband and her cat, Cleopatra. You can get in touch with her by email, find her social media links, or sign up for her monthly newsletter at cathryngrant.com/contact. As a thank you for signing up, you’ll receive a free short story about Alexandra Mallory.
