He promised to keep my secrets. He never told me his…My husband and I are the dream couple: deeply in love, the envy of all our friends. He surprises me with roses and a beautiful diamond ring, and I prepare picnics for us to enjoy in the sunshine with our adorable son. It’s gestures like this that keep our romance alive.But nobody knows how frightened I am at night. Oliver promised he’d keep me safe, but strange things have started to happen in my home.My son is convinced that someone was in his room, watching him while he slept. And the white lantern on our porch has been smashed. One evening I could swear there’s a shadowy figure watching me through the window, lurking across the street. As I triple check that the doors are locked and kiss my son goodnight, I’m terrified that someone knows what happened before we moved here, and that soon everything I love will be taken away…Then Oliver comes home with blood on his hands on the same night our neighbour, one of my closest friends, goes missing. And I realise I am not the only one hiding a terrible secret.We are both lying. But when the truth finally comes to light, who will survive? And can I keep my son safe?
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Review
Well, hello creepiness. That’s the first thing I felt when I started this book and that first chapter pulled me in by the throat and would not let me go.
The story begins in the present and the author dangles the fact that there is a secret that can come out like a carrot in front of me. Little by little I creep closer to the truth.
Secrets… There different kinds of them. Of course everybody is entitled to have some. I guess there are always things you don’t want to tell or only to a happy few. Some secrets are innocent and a can kept hidden by telling a little white lie. Others though that are life changing for a lot of people, are due to come out sooner or later.
When something big has happened and you are a honest person, you want to do the right thing. Sometimes you are so devastated and panicking you let someone talk you into something you regret later. Because when you have to rely on someone to keep your secret, you are always bound to that person whether you like it or not. Desperate minds lead to desperate decisions, but maybe that’s right up someone’s alley?
There is no present without a past. So the author takes the reader back in time, to where it all began. The unravelling can begin. Each chapter gives a bit more away and every time when we were beamed to the present again, I was like ‘nooooo’, I want to stay here and find out more.
In the meantime, things started to blow up in the present too. Boom! Boom! Boom! More than once a bomb was dropped. I could never have imagined all that!
This author has written a great book where not so kind characters are eliminated. It’s also about forgiveness, second changes and love. Wonderful. 5 stars.
Thank you
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About the Author
Liz’s story began in a refugee camp in Angola, where she spent the first eight years of her life. After that, she spent some years in Namibia (her home country), South Africa, and Germany. She now lives in Vienna, Austria, with her husband and two children. Liz wrote her first full-length novel at eighteen and hid it in a box under her bed. Several others soon followed it. Her passion lies in writing edge-of-the-seat psychological thrillers that give readers the same rush they would get on a rollercoaster.
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Author Links
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Website: author-lgdavis.com
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Book Link
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