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Chosen Child

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The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins · 294 pages

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Cause for Alarm

Erica Spindler · 512 pages

Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage—marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream...and opens the door to a nightmare....Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. For Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she's been waiting for. Stalking the couple, Julianna molds herself in Kate's image

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The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 464 pages

Jewell has a way with the quietly creepy subgenre of domestic suspense. Her books, this one included, often rely on the kind of passive spying we do on our neighbors and loved ones—the kind of spying that uncovers unsettling secrets. In this book, the heroine, Libby Jones, has reached her twenty-fifth birthday and thus learns what her long-dead parents left to her: a house in London’s chichi Kensi

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Desperate

Daniel Palmer · 330 pages

When Gage and Anna meet Lily, a pregnant, homeless teenager, it seems that fate has brought them together. Lily agrees to give the couple her baby in return for financial support, but something isn't right. Gage finds himself being sabotaged at home and work, and his attempts to uncover the truth only seem to make his life unravel faster.

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A Necessary End

Holly Brown · 477 pages

"Thirty-nine-year-old Adrienne is desperate to be a mother. And this time, nothing is going to get in her way. Sure, her husband, Gabe, is ambivalent about fatherhood. But she knows that once he holds their baby, he'll come around. He's just feeling a little threatened, that's all. Because once upon a time, it was Gabe that Adrienne wanted more than anything; she was willing to do anything. . . .

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Pretty Baby

Mary Kubica

She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Wil

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Water Under the Bridge

Britney King · 254 pages

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Beneath The Surface

Heidi Perks · 352 pages

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The Accident

S.D. Monaghan · 260 pages

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The Hidden Girl

Louise Millar · 386 pages

"Hannah Riley and her husband, Will, hope that a move to the countryside will provide a fresh start. Hannah is desperate for a baby, and she hopes that this new life will allow her to realize her dream of adopting a child--and revitalize her marriage. Yet when the worst snowstorm in years comes to Suffolk, Will is working in London and Hannah is cut off in their remote village, obsessively scramb

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Valentina

S.E. Lynes · 356 pages

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What Alice Knew

T.A. Cotterell · 377 pages

Alice has a perfect life, a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he goes missing one night; she receives a suspicious phone call; things don't quite add up. Alice needs to know what's going on. But when she uncovers the truth she faces a brutal choice. And how can she be sure it is the truth? Sometimes it's better not to know.

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The Divorce

Freida McFadden · 368 pages

After her husband ends their marriage and she turns her attention to his new girlfriend, Naomi suspects she might be in danger.

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Insomnia

Sarah Pinborough · 336 pages

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The Doll House

Phoebe Morgan · 384 pages

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Silent Child

Sarah A. Denzil · 416 pages

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Strange Sally Diamond

Liz Nugent · 384 pages

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Tell Me No Secrets

Julie Corbin · 363 pages

When you're living a lie, your past will always haunt you. Her name was Rose and she was eight years old when she died. I'm not going tomake excuses for what I did. I'm going to tell my story as it is and as it was. This isn't the beginning but it's a good place to start.

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Binds That Tie

Kate Moretti

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The Widow

Fiona Barton · 401 pages

"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. A

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Still Missing

Chevy Stevens · 368 pages

"On the day she was abducted, Annie O{u2019}Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals{u2014}sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the

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The Dinner Club

Saskia Noort · 253 pages

On a cold winters night, an elegant villa goes up in flames. Evert Struyck, happily married, father of two and successful business man, dies in the fire. His wife, Babette and the children manage to escape. This story talks about a group of people desperately hanging on to the outer varnish of their lives, at any cost.

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The Loving Husband

Christobel Kent · 416 pages

"A taut and absorbing thriller about a murdered husband who may not have been so loving after all. Fran Hall and her husband, Nathan, live in a run-down farmhouse on the edge of the Fens, where they recently moved from London with their two young children. One February night, Fran awakes to an empty bed and goes searching for her husband. She finds Nathan behind their house, lying facedown in a di

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Don't Stand So Close

Luana Lewis · 320 pages

What would you do if a young girl knocked on your door and asked for your help? If it was snowing and she was freezing cold, but you were afraid and alone? What would you do if you let her in, but couldn't make her leave? What if she told you terrible lies about someone you love, but the truth was even worse? Stella has been cocooned in her home for three years. Severely agoraphobic, she knows she

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