July 2022
ISBN: 9781250862396
About:
A brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.
When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom – covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her – she knows she’ll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it’s not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it’s only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she’s worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes, known as the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder in a trial that riveted Canada in the early nineties. Reyes knows who Paris really is, and when she’s unexpectedly released from prison, she threatens to expose all of Paris’s secrets. Left with no other choice, Paris must finally confront the dark past she escaped, once and for all.
Review:
Compelling, gripping and very dark. Joey is a target for abusers, an innocent young girl with her mother Ruby who she loves but really Ruby has not a maternal bone in her body. Both Ruby and Joey using it to their advantage but also plighted by the curse of being beautiful.
Both looking for something better in life but in Joey’s case just hoping her mother will love her, whilst Ruby is after money and a man who can provide it for her. Ruby uses Joey as a punch bag then treats her like a sweetheart depending on how things are going for her at that moment in time.
Joey knows her mum well, her differing smiles, her tone of voice. Ruby accused of murder and knowing how much her daughter loves her, tries to manipulate Joey before she takes the witness stand, but in that courtroom as an abused child and lacking motherly love Joey makes a decision that will forever change the direction of both their lives.
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