Natalie Barelli

When I arrive unannounced at my husband's studio in need of a shoulder to cry on after hearing that my best student, Alex, has died, I see a pair of wineglasses drying by the sink, and my deepest fear is confirmed: my husband is having an affair....

When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been 10 years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way....

Everyone has secrets, and Rachel Holloway is no exception. She’s worked hard to keep the past where it belongs: dead and buried. But now the small newspaper where she works wants to produce a podcast on a cold case: the disappearance 12 years ago of young Molly Forster....

Beatrice Johnson Greene, a bestselling crime writer, has a favor to ask. When a chance encounter brings Emma Fern into her life, she thinks she's found just the person for the job....

Katherine Nichols knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And they'd had such a great night out, the two of them. Even now, driving them home and knowing she shouldn’t, seemed almost mischievous. All part of the fun. Not anymore....

When Rose discovers her troubled past splashed across the pages of a bestselling book, she knows her carefully constructed life is about to unravel. The author, Emily Harper, claims the story is fiction, but Rose knows better.

Tamra never dreamed she would marry someone like Mike Mitchell: handsome, rich, a wonderful husband...until she finds out that Mike is having an affair. But Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and Mike Mitchell should have remembered that before he made a fool of her....

Your ex-wife didn’t leave you because of me. She didn’t abandon her little girl because of a couple of love notes in your jeans pocket. She left because she’s twisted, and she wanted to punish you. And she’s not finished yet....

As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is that she didn't write the first one....

Ich lächle gutmütig, als sie mir sagt, wie glücklich ich mich schätzen kann, eine so wundervolle Familie zu haben. Glück hat wenig damit zu tun. Meine Familie ist eine Festung, und jeden Tag muss ich für sie kämpfen, gegen Eindringlinge verteidigen.

Jeder hat Geheimnisse, und Rachel Holloway bildet da keine Ausnahme. Sie hat alles darangesetzt, dass die Vergangenheit dort bleibt, wo sie hingehört: begraben und vergessen.