This was an intriguing thriller that I truly thought I had figured out from the beginning! Nope! Not even close!

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Brooke is now dating Tim! Can she trust Tim? She knew him since they were kids but did he lie? Maybe Shane is telling the truth. Did she help put her son's father in prison? Ughh!!🙄 All the maybe he isn’t—, maybe I should be—, maybe I should just—, I can't. Brooke why are you doing this to yourself. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth--Liam may have done the unthinkable.A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. IDK. The author is good at suspense, but there are a lot of cliche events in the story. And the 2 books I’ve read by this author end in a depressing way. But, like I said, she does create a good paced mystery. So I’m torn. Read more As a practicing physician, Freida McFadden specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with brain injury. But Nobody knows that Brooke has a secret…her past connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most dangerous inmates. Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart, who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of horrific murders. and it was Brooke’s testimony that sent him to jail.

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Then there is the devil herself: Dr. Alyssa Morgan, Jane’s senior resident. Alyssa becomes absolutely hellbent on making all of the new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane begins to worry that she might not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity remaining intact. There has been far too many issues to dismiss. The reason for the murder is so bad. Are we really going to buy that a life-sentence can be overturned that easily? Or that a correctional facility would hire someone associated with a prisoner even if they were that desperate? So now, the 3 lives of the “survivors” intersect in the present. Brooke is a nurse practitioner who is desperate for work and can only find a job in a all men’s penitentiary, the exact same one where Brandon is. Tim who was present also on that fatal night, and who was her childhood best friend, her first practice kiss, and now her son’s school principal, renews his friendship with Brooke and the more than casual interest that he had in her…( he claims he has always loved her). I have read all the books except the 2 short stories. For some reason I have never liked short stories. All the rest, I just devoured continuously til they were all read.Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. But it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby's child has an unspeakable secret. I love love your books . Started them a few month ago and have read at least seven. Reading the Surrogate Mother now , what a fun read. I can’t put your books down. I am afraid I will run out of your books and won’t know what to do. Keep writing your books are the best. I have recommended them to all my friends and family. Thanks for the entertainment. Reply Even before the big reveal, when Brooke thought Shane and Tim were in on the original murders together, it gave a strong original Scream vibe (Billy and Stu). Right down to intending to give each other superficial injuries to look like innocent victims. And for a while the reader was supposed to wonder if Shane was really innocent, sent to prison by Brooke’s damning testimony. Just like in Scream, where Cotton Weary was wrongly convicted in large part due to Sidney’s testimony.

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Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. Sexy Surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved. Pulls you in and for whatever reason is engaging —(some context silliness with a questionable content?) Yes! She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler wouldn’t wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband would change the toilet paper roll once every millennium. Still, in most ways, she has the ideal life she’d always imagined. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell―beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running―is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything…

side note* my dog did not suffer from hunger or was neglected while both reading this book & writing my review. 😉 All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. My husband and I lived near Raleigh, NC 40 yrs., & recently retired in a quaint town full of mysteries & many wonderful people sprinkled with some rather odd ones too! I’m sure they will pop up in one of my books in the near future! Fingers are pointing galore! The two men hate each other and each tells her to be weary of the other. Along the lines, Brooke really gets confused. She begins to wonder if her testimony put the right man in jail. She’s sure of it, and then she’s not. She never did saw the actual face of the one who tried to kill her all those years ago! She never saw the murderer that night at all, the one who killed her friends. Was she right about Brandon? Wrong about Tim? Things are really confusing about both their present behaviors and the details of their personalities and present actions.

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Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. Brooke was written too dumb for this to be remotely enjoyable. Another idiot-driven plot. Actually, I'm beginning to think McFadden writes the dumbest protagonists — women who are helpless and can hardly think for themselves. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria’s husband to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn’t as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There’s a story Victoria desperately wants to tell… if only she could get out the words. However it turns out that Monica is not who she says she is. The woman now carries Abby’s baby has got an unspeakable secret. And she’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants. The Surrogate Mother” is the second stand alone novel and was released in the year 2018. Abby wants a baby more than anything else. However after years of adoptions that have fallen through and failed infertility treatments, it seems that motherhood isn’t in her future. That is, until Monica, her personal assistant, makes a generous offer which is going to make all of Abby’s dreams come true.YEP…. it’s speedy alright — I actually guessed one aspect of the story early on �� but not the full extent of it… It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider―she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim?