Samantha Hayes

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

An Absolutely Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Jaw-Dropping Twist

Returning early from a disastrous date night with my husband, I know something is wrong the moment the wheels crunch the gravel drive of our home. Inside, the TV is on and a half-eaten meal waits on the table. My heart stops when I find our little girl is alone in the house and our babysitter, Sasha, is missing...

Days later, when I'm arrested for Sasha's murder and torn away from my perfect little family, I'll wish I had told someone about the threatening note I received that morning.

I'll hate myself for not finding out who the gift hidden inside my husband's wardrobe was for.

I'll scream from the rooftops that I'm innocent - but no one will listen.

I will realise I was completely wrong about everything that happened that night...

But will you believe me?

Twisted and absolutely unputdownable, Date Night exposes what goes on behind the closed doors of a happy home and the dangerous truths we ignore to protect the ones we love. Perfect reading for anyone totally gripped by The Wife Between Us, Friend Request or Gone Girl.

Readers adore Samantha Hayes!
'Oh my freaking god! What a fabulous and intriguing read... this is definitely the best book I've read... I absolutely loved this shocker of a book... left me stunned, as to the why, well you are just going to have to read the book and see... One of the most exciting psychological thrillers I've read all year... just buy it you won't disappointed I promise.' The Book Review Caf�, 5 stars

'This book was INSANE... The plot twist at the end slapped me in the face and I am still in shock about it!! I COMPLETELY recommend this if you're a fan of books like The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the Window, and Gone Girl.' Goodreads Reviewer

'A brilliant and gripping thriller! It's very fast-paced (I was racing through to find out what happened)!' Cloud of Thoughts, 5 stars

'Pushes all the right buttons from the off and continues to push them right up until the last page. The story is mesmerising as it draws you in and won't let go (well didn't me) and at times I had to reign myself back from wanting to find out the outcome, NOW!!... The ending will shock you and left me reeling a bit if I'm honest. In my top 3 reads of this year... Awesome... wonderful... 10/10, 5 stars.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

'Wow!... grabs your full attention and keeps it until the very end... This read kept me wondering where it was all going and I could not wait until the end to find out... You will not regret picking this one up!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

'Writing that gets the hairs standing up on the back of my neck... A fast-paced psychological thriller of the finest order... chillingly good.' nigeladamsbookworm, 5 stars

'Holy cow, all I can say is this is one of those books that will have you craving more... be ready for the shock that might just blow your mind... Riveting, chilling, thrilling, and absolutely shocking'!!! A must read for any thriller lover!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

'Just couldn't tear myself away no matter how hard I tried... A seriously compulsive read that you won't want to put down. It was an addictive read that I couldn't get enough of and the build-up of tension was just off the scale. You know how great a book is when your heart is still racing hours after finishing the book as the adrenaline was still coursing through my body. Compulsive, addictive, what more do you need from a psychological thriller?' bytheletterbookreviews, 5 stars

Date Night

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Amanda Quick

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Romance Novel 

Charlotte Arkendale was quite sure she knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a highly lucrative career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. But nothing in Charlotte's considerable experience had prepared her for the arresting stranger who appeared on her doorstep to apply for the position of her new man-of-affairs." "He claimed to be a respectable gentleman - discreet, unassuming, ordinary to the point of being dull. Yet something about the set of Mr. St. Ives's broad shoulders and the unrelenting determination that smoldered in the depths of his amber eyes warned Charlotte to be wary. For the strong-minded beauty was already embroiled in a wealth of danger." "Two months earlier, Miss Drusilla Heskett had become one of Charlotte's clients. Now the women was dead, murdered in her own home, and Charlotte feared that the killer may have been one of the suitors she herself had advised Miss Heskett to reject. Still, with the right man by her side, Charlotte was certain she could uncover the truth and bring Drusilla's killer to justice. But was the enigmatic St. Ives Mr. Right...or Mr. Wrong?" "What a predicament he was in! A dedicated man of science who worshiped at the altar of logic and reason, Baxter St. Ives couldn't bloody well believe that he was actually masquerading as a man-of-affairs to get close to a maddeningly independent woman. Hunting down a murderer under false pretenses was one thing, but discovering himself at the mercy of a fierce and highly illogical passion for his new employer was throwing his life into chaos. It was enough to make a man lock himself in the sanctuary of his laboratory and never emerge." "Instead, St. Ives decides to conduct an experiment, a risky scientific exploration into the reckless alchemy of desire. But even as the daring St. Ives sets out to seduce Charlotte, the mystery that surrounds them deepens. For a twisted killer is still on the loose in London, plotting to part the lovers...or see them joined together forever - in death.

Affair

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Jennifer Weiner

Indiana

A Novel

A politician's wife retreats with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house after a painful public betrayal, an escape marked by new beginnings and her younger daughter's pregnancy.

Fly Away Home

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Susan Mallery

Virginia

Buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island, Dr. Andi Gordon, deciding that both her life and home are in need of some major renovations, forms an unbreakable bond with her neighbors--two very different women who are dealing with their own struggles. Original.

Three Sisters

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Abbi Waxman

Other People's Houses

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Sebastian Faulks

Georgia

From the author of the international bestsellers "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray" comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars.

The Girl at the Lion D'or

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Janelle Brown

Paperback. See pictures for detail. More pictures upon request. 

Wisconsin

A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Anita Shreve

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1999 FIRST EDITION

A meditation on the erotic life of women, an exploration of class prejudices, and most of all a portrayal of the thoughts and actions of an unforgettable young woman.

This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.

The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New England home, one that has inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and out of a house.''

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

At a turn-of-the-century coastal resort in New Hampshire, young Olympia Biddeford is drawn into an intense love affair with a much older man, John Haskell, a married physician and activist, an affair that has a profound and long-reaching impact on everyone around them. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

FIRST EDITION Fortune's Rocks, Book 1 of 4

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NINE And A HALF WEEKS. A Memoir of A Love Affair. 

#paperback #erotic #affair #romance #love

Alaska

Night Moves

Rielle Hunter

The John Edwards' Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. "One of the biggest political scandals of all time,” "a fall from grace,” "a modern-day tragedy”—it’s a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the U.S. government, by supposed friends. However, there is someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day one—the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter.

In the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn.

Meet Edwards’s political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of "friends,” enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards’ 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel "Bunny” Mellon and Fred Baron actually went.

This book doesn’t spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn’t about changing anyone’s mind. It’s simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me

The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. "One of the biggest political scandals of all time," "a fall from grace," "a modern-day tragedy"—it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the U.S. government, by supposed friends. However, there is someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day one—the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter. In the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn. Meet Edwards's political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of "friends," enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards's 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Fred Baron actually went. This book doesn't spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn't about changing anyone's mind. It's simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.

What Really Happened

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Evelyn Anthony

The world's diamond industry is about to explode into anarchy. In the frozen north of Archangel, a new mine is yielding the most beautiful and rare stone in the world - the red diamond. And Karakov, the greatest and wiliest jeweller the industry has ever seen, is about to sign an exclusive agreement with Moscow.From all over the world the directors of Diamond Enterprises gather to try and stop Karakov destabilizing the diamond trade. But there is deceit and betrayal even within their own group. For Julius Heyderman is determinded to destroy his life-long enemy, the man who runs the British end of the business, Arthur Harris.All the members of the board have their tortured secrets - Reece, Heyderman's right-hand man, is locked into a relationship he cannot control; Kruger has dumped his wife of thirty years for his secretary, Ruth Fraser; and Ray Andrews, who is being sent back to Moscow to try to salvage the deal he botched five years before.And then there is James Hastings, young, aggressive, burningly ambitious. James is prepared to sacrifice everything to succeed - everything except his beautiful aristocratic wife. Elizabeth is his Achilles' heel. And behind the panic-driven plots of Diamond Enterprises looms the spectre of Karakov, Russian by descent, the most brilliant plotter of them all.

In the frozen north of Russia, a new mine is yielding rare gems the world has never seen: red diamonds called "bloodstones."

Bloodstones

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Eloisa James

A Romantic Novel 

Four years after their romantic wedding, the Duke of Fletcher, disturbed over the growing distance between him and his beautiful wife Perdita, sets out to win back her affections with an artful seduction, in the second volume in the Desperate Duchesses series. Original.

An Affair Before Christmas

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Pamela Crane

Michigan

From USA Today bestselling author Pamela Crane comes an addictively readable domestic suspense novel... Mackenzie, Robin, and Lily have been inseparable forever, sharing life's ups and downs and growing even closer as the years have gone by. They know everything about each other. Or so they believe. Nothing could come between these three best friends . . . Except for a betrayal. Nothing could turn them against each other . . . Except for a terrible past mistake. Nothing could tear them apart . . . Except for murder.

Little Deadly Secrets

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Rebecca Coleman

The Kingdom of Childhood is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother's extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what Zach does not realize is that their relationship is--for Judy--only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets.

Rebecca Coleman's manuscript for The Kingdom of Childhood was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. An emotionally tense, increasingly chilling work of fiction set in the controversial Waldorf school community, it is equal parts enchanting and unsettling and is sure to be a much-discussed and much-debated novel.



The Kingdom of Childhood

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Used - read copy some creases and folds at corners of cover and spine 
Pages yellowing 
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Avon Books, 1971, 251 pages 

"A second novel which directs a very level look at the groundswells of a marriage and which in its detached scrutiny provides a portrait which is careful rather than concerned. Centered here is Sybil, defensively indifferent, self-conscious and critical as she wars against her family- and social pressures, until she meets and falls in love with Philip, a rather obvious young man of great eligibility. Philip, appreciative of the steadfast affection she offers him, marries her, is off to war, and on his return retreats from her submissive devotion in an occasional affair, until it narrows down to Julie who is determined to marry him. The breakup of their marriage leads to a tortured summer for Sybil, an aggressive attempt at an affair, until finally she compromises with herself and allows Philip, momentarily chastened, to come back....An intelligent rather than intense perspective of private lives, acerb in its social commentary as well."--Kirkus

California

Sybil

Beatrice Hitchman

From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a family Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One is an atmospheric, original, and deeply moving novel about family, freedom, and how true love might survive impossible odds. Julia Lindqvist, a woman unhappily married to a famous Swedish playwright, leaves her husband to begin a passionate affair with a female tailor named Eve. The pair run away together and settle in the more liberal haven of Vienna, where they fall in love, navigate the challenges of their newfound independence, and find community in the city's Jewish quarter. But Julia's yearning for a child throws their fragile happiness into chaos and threatens to destroy her life and the lives of those closest to her. Ada Bauer's wealthy industrialist family have sent her to Dr. Freud in the hope that he can cure her mutism--and do so without a scandal. But help will soon come for Ada from an unexpected place, changing many lives irrevocably. Through the lives of her queer characters, and against the changing backdrop of one of the greatest cities of the age, Hitchman asks what it's like to live through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Moving across Europe and through decades, Hitchman's sophomore novel is an intensely poignant portrait of life and love on the fringes of history.

All of You Every Single One

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#paperback #Marriage #affair #Motherhood #1920 #Passion #Jealousy #ErnestHemingway #LoveAffair #FamilyDrama 

The Paris Wife 

Willard F. Harley

Jennifer Harley Chalmers

Florida

A guide to reconciliation outlines steps towards recovering from infidelity and rebuilding a loving trusting marriage

Surviving an Affair

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Washington

A. R. Torre

Such a quiet and ordinary wife and mother. Who will even notice what she's done?

Lillian Smith leads an unexceptional life, writing obituaries and killing time with her inattentive husband and disconnected son. Then she meets David, a handsome stranger, in a coffee shop. Lured into an affair, she invents a new persona, one without strings, deadlines, or brooding husbands.

Lillian has never felt so reckless, unpredictable, or wanted. But as her affair with David intensifies, she withdraws from everything that's real, even her closest friend. When evidence of her life as a secret lover finds its way onto her son's social media, she risks ruining much more than her marriage or reputation.

As lies beget lies, Lillian's two worlds spiral dangerously out of control. And betrayals run deeper than she imagines. Because Lillian isn't the only one leading a double life.

A Familiar Stranger

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Arkansas

North Carolina

Young, Galmorous and Sexy, She Was Every Man's Fantasy...
And A Nightmare of Death For Her Husband.
She Hid Her Criminal Past...
Prominent Indiana attorney Jimmy Grund thought he'd found the woman of his dreams when he wed his second wife Susan. But beneath the silky blond society lady lurked a calculating, evil-tempered seductress whose murderous future was about to rival her sordid past,
She Plotted A Brutal Murder...
While she hid her previous marriages and an appalling crime from Jimmy, she was soon plotting to get her hands on his fortune. When Jimmy Grund finally found out the truth about his wife, he told her he was divorcing her. But no one left Susan Grund.
She Killed Her Husband With A Gun Stolen From His Own Son...
all of Peru, Indiana was stunned when it was revealed the fatal bullet came from a gun stolen from young David Grund. Yet even that paled next to Susan's incredible testimony that she had carries on a two-year affair with the innocent teenager, who denied the affair and was not implicated in the crime.
Here is the story of a real femme fatale, who spun a web of deceit and murder that shocked an entire town.


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