also, when it is obsessive or unrequited, might drive us to great acts of despair. It explores the tangled web we weave when we set out to deceive. I love to look at how the past, our perception of ourselves, our failures, strengths and flaws, might shape our future. There are some parts of our past that, through a sense of unworthiness or shame, or some dreadful deed perhaps, we might choose to hide because of what we imagine other people’s opinions of us will be. And so that first lie is told. Some little white lies might make no difference to our lives. Others might have a devastating impact on us and on the people around us – friends, children spouses or lovers, sisters or brothers. To keep a secret from being found out, we might bury it under another intricate lie, and then another, until the web becomes so tangled we can’t find a way to extract ourselves. Thus begins the snowball effect: each lie building on itself to become larger, more dangerous, gathering momentum, until it crashes into the walls we build around ourselves and shakes the foundations beneath us. That, then, is the premise of The New Girlfriend. We look at a seemingly perfectly normal family, whose lives begin to unravel as untruths unfold. How far will someone go to keep their secret safe?
As I pen this last little section of the book, I would again like to thank those people around me who are always there to offer support (when I remember to reach out); those people who believed in me even when I didn’t quite believe in myself.
To all of you, thank you for helping me make my dream come true.
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You trust her with your family. Would you trust her with your life?
Mark and Melissa Cain are thrilled to have found Jade, a babysitter who is brilliant with their young children. Having seen her own house burn to the ground, Jade needs them as much as they need her. Moving Jade into the family home can only be a good thing, can’t it?
As Mark works long hours as a police officer and Melissa struggles with running a business, the family become ever more reliant on their babysitter, who is only too happy to help. And as Melissa begins to slip into depression, it’s Jade who is left picking up the pieces.
But Mark soon notices things aren’t quite as they seem. Things at home feel wrong, and as Mark begins to investigate their seemingly perfect sitter, what he discovers shocks him to his core. He’s met Jade before. And now he suspects he might know what she wants…
Mark is in a race against time to protect his family. But what will he find as he goes back to his family home?
If you loved reading The Girl on the Train, Behind Closed Doors and The Sister, you’ll love the suspense of The Babysitter. This unputdownable read will have you turning the pages until way after dark.
The Affair
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The moment she opened her eyes, she knew everything had changed. The stale taste of alcohol; her uneasy stomach. She looked at her husband sleeping peacefully, and knew she would never tell anyone what happened last night.
You will think you know what happened to Alicia that night.
You will see a desperate wife, lying to her husband.
You will watch a charming lover, trying to win her back.
You will judge her, just like everyone else.
You will assume you know what happens next. But everything you think you know about the past, the relationships, what drives Alicia and her husband to lie... is wrong.
If you loved The Girl on the Train, The Wife Between Us and The Sister, you’ll love this compelling and gripping psychological thriller from Sheryl Browne. The Affair will have you hooked from the very first page!
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The Second Wife
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She made her bed. You’ll lie in it.
Rebecca and Nicole swore to be best friends forever. But three years after they last met up, Rebecca receives a phone call from Nicole’s devoted husband, Richard. Nicole is dead, a tragic suicide. Drowned in a river close to her