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National Bestseller!

"Unflinching and unforgettable. Little Secrets has everything you want in a thriller" —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every Door

Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense.

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Little Secrets is both brilliantly written and terrifying, making it one of my all-time favorite psychological thrillers. Eighteen months after Marin’s young son, Sebastian, was kidnapped as she shopped with him at a crowded Seattle market, both Marin and her marriage are hanging on by a thread. Desperate for answers, she hires a PI to help locate additional clues as to what happened to her son. As the secrets begin unraveling, the twists reveal themselves. Jennifer Hillier’s clean writing style and relatable characters drew me in, but the high tension and off-the-charts creep-factor kept me tearing through the pages all…

Another story where you don’t need to be a mother or a wife to feel this woman’s angst on all levels and the twists will keep you flipping the page – like a mother. This prays on every mother’s fear and shakes the very core of every mom. She lets go of her son’s tiny hand for a moment, and that moment turns into a hellish road of despair. And then, of course, she learns horrible things about her husband. But her choices make you think, could I do that? Even if the answer is no, you still root for…

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