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The instant New York Times bestseller that BookTok is calling "absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G" (@hollylovesbooks1519) and "impossible to put down" (@kurryreads), from the author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse... A terrible accident. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. A shocking revelation. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who... and why? No one is safe. Meghan lets herself get close to Caitlin until she's deeply entangled in the mystery surrounding her. Only when it's too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims... "A tense, compelling thriller with completely gasp-worthy twists." —Nita Prose, #1 bestselling author of The Maid Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
The Good Girl
The Other Mrs.
Local Woman Missing
Just the Nicest Couple
The instant New York Times bestseller that BookTok is calling "absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G" (@hollylovesbooks1519) and "impossible to put down" (@kurryreads), from the author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse... A terrible accident. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. A shocking revelation. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who... and why? No one is safe. Meghan lets herself get close to Caitlin until she's deeply entangled in the mystery surrounding her. Only when it's too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims... "A tense, compelling thriller with completely gasp-worthy twists." —Nita Prose, #1 bestselling author of The Maid Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica:
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About the Author-
Mary Kubica is a New York Times bestselling author of thrillers including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Her novels have been praised as "hypnotic" (People) and "thrilling and illuminating" (L.A. Times). She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and children.
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January 1, 2024
Kubica (Just the Nicest Couple) made LibraryRead's Hall of Fame with her clever, tense domestic thrillers. This time, an ICU nurse becomes embroiled in a deadly situation when she gets drawn into the life of a patient brought in with traumatic brain injuries--did that woman jump from a bridge, or was she pushed? With a 200K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.
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Starred review from February 15, 2024 Kubica's ninth thriller (after Just the Nicest Couple, 2023) is twisty, addictive, and bingeable. In downtown Chicago, newly divorced, single mother Meghan Michaels is working full time as an ICU nurse and raising a teenage daughter. When a woman arrives in the ICU in a coma with a traumatic brain injury after jumping off a bridge, Meghan is assigned to her care. Soon, she finds herself getting too close to the patient and her family. Then, a witness reports that she saw someone push the patient off the bridge. And there's a serial killer on the loose. Meghan begins to fear that she and her daughter are now in danger. Could they be next? Kubica casts suspicion on many characters while creating palpable tension, eventually connecting the perfectly paced plotlines into a satisfying conclusion. The ICU-nursing profession is well researched and represented through Meghan's character. Kubica explores themes of complex mother-daughter relationships, kidnapping, domestic abuse, serial killers, and suicide. This suspense-thriller will fully engage readers and leave them guessing until the very end.
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March 15, 2024 In trying to do the right thing, a woman puts herself and her family in danger--and is forced to take extreme action to protect herself. After a long shift at the hospital where she works as an ICU nurse, Meghan Michaels trudges through the cold Chicago evening to attend her divorce support group, where she's surprised to run into Natalie Cohen, a woman she hasn't seen since high school. While they were never close friends, Meghan encourages Nat to give the group a chance when she expresses doubts. She can't help but notice the ugly bruise on Nat's temple; having experience with victims of domestic abuse in her line of work, Meghan is concerned. She remembers a previous case when a battered woman came in to the hospital but refused to press charges; she was later murdered by her husband. Speaking of dangerous men, there has been a recent rash of attacks on women by a man who hasn't been caught, so Meghan is particularly on her guard. She lives with her teenage daughter, Sienna, who's often home by herself when Meghan is working. One of Meghan's patients, a woman who purportedly jumped off a bridge and is now in a coma, may have been fleeing the assailant--and either fell or was pushed. These violent storylines converge over the length of a novel in which, of course, not everyone is who they seem. A twist is expected in any Kubica novel, and this one is pretty successful. Meghan is particularly strong and thoughtful, so she makes both an attractive protagonist and a formidable antagonist for those who will threaten her and her family. She has her secrets and will do anything to protect them, but she also has a sense of justice. Ultimately, she wants to make the world a safer place, and the novel encourages us to view that as a worthy goal, whatever the path. Interrogates and exposes the everyday fears that women face--while still checking all the thriller boxes.
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