Book description
A gripping, twisty thriller from Freida McFadden, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!
The guiltiest people aren't always the ones behind bars...
As a new nurse practitioner at a maximum-security prison, Brooke Sullivan is taught three crucial rules:
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I feel that Freida McFadden is hands down the queen of the gripping psychological thriller. The bottom line rule for a thriller is you feel compelled to turn the page and keep reading! By chapter three, the plot is lined up. I loved how the author kept you guessing who the bad guy was!
The main character comes back to her hometown as a nurse practitioner in a prison to a house she inherited because her parents were killed in an auto accident. She has a ten-year-old son from a mistake teenage pregnancy. The inmate, in this case, is the…
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