The Secrets She Keeps

2017 | Fiction & Poetry

As the hours of her shifts stocking shelves at the supermarket creep by, the one thing Agatha looks forward to all day is catching a glimpse of her, the effortlessly chic Description of photo herecustomer whose elegant lifestyle dazzles her. Meghan has it all: two perfect children, a handsome and successful husband, a happy marriage, a beautiful house, a stylish group of friends, and a popular parenting blog called “Mucky Kids” that Agatha reads with devotion each night as she waits in hope for her absent boyfriend, the father of the baby growing inside her, to return her calls.

Meghan is also pregnant and their due dates fall within the same month. Now they have something in common and Agatha finally musters the courage to speak to Meghan. Does it matter that she doesn’t tell her the truth about herself? That her life is a knot of dark secrets? No, decides Agatha, because the lies we tell others are nothing compared to those we tell ourselves.

Yet if Agatha could look beyond the gloss and trappings of Meghan’s ‘perfect life’ she’d see the flaws and doubts. Meghan has her secrets too, especially one that dare not ever tell. Soon the lives of these two women will become dangerously entangled in the most spellbinding and intimate of ways, until their secrets are exposed by one shocking act that cannot be undone.

From international bestselling author Michael Robotham, whom Stephen King called “an absolute master” of the psychological thriller, The Secrets She Keeps is a dark, perfect, and twisted page-turner so full of surprises, you’ll find it impossible to put down.

Michael Robotham (Author)