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I watch them from behind the café counter—those perfect women with perfect lives. Everything I've ever wanted, they already have. I was supposed to be one of them. I still could be. Then he walks in. Theo Connor is charming, brilliant, and possibly the one person who sees me. Finally, someone is looking back. I'll do whatever it takes to be part of his world. To have the life I deserve. No matter who gets in the way. Because I'm done with watching them from the outside, it's my turn now. But Theo is not who he seems. None of them are.

Amy Linden has a loving husband, an adorable son, and a glamorous career as the hotelier of a grand mountain lodge. Then Ramona Crawford, the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years earlier, pays her a surprise visit. Ramona wants to know the identity of her biological father—and Amy completely understands. There’s just one problem: the truth would destroy Amy’s carefully curated life.

Amanda led a fairly ordinary life, until she met Damian. He swept her off her feet, whisked her away on exotic holidays, wined and dined her in expensive restaurants and showered her with compliments. But lurking beneath the charming exterior were sinister secrets Damian had been carrying since childhood, secrets that slowly began to surface. Two sons and a failed marriage later, nothing could have prepared her for the extent of her ex-husband’s deception. The truth starts to emerge, one December evening, when Amanda’s eldest boy Lewis reveals why he is so scared of his father.

Grieving from the death of her father, Dana decides to take a break from online dating. After a chance encounter with a medium predicts that she’ll find love again, a message from an intriguing stranger piques her interest. Erik Becker is the charming, witty and charismatic stranger who messages her, challenging her to step out of her comfort zone and give love another chance. Dana thinks she’s met her soulmate, but soon realizes that the man of her dreams is not who he seems.

Stephanie Silkwood just hit her head. Hard. As she comes to on the deck of a luxury riverboat cruising down the Amazon, she’s acutely aware of two things: she's bleeding profusely, and her husband Steve is the one who shoved her overboard. At least, that’s what her newly faulty memory is telling her. Beyond the two hot palms against her bare back right before she tumbled over the railing, Stephanie remembers little about the months leading up to the trip or the couple joining them. Doubting her own recollection, Stephanie searches for the truth of what happened the night she went overboard.

Sasha Fulton has it all – the glittering career, the model nuclear family, the perfect life. But behind the polished exterior is a constant battle to keep every plate spinning, while the clock ticks down on her desperate desire for a child of her own. When Sasha’s new assistant Jenna walks through the door, it’s as though all her prayers have been answered. Supremely capable and steadfastly loyal, Jenna quickly becomes indispensable as Sasha takes on the biggest challenge of her career. But with the pressure increasing on all sides, Sasha’s vulnerabilities are exposed.

Clara and Henrik are married and living in a beautiful inherited villa in Oslo. She is a single-mindedly ambitious child-rights activist at the Ministry of Justice. Having grown up in rural Western Norway, she is also an Oslo outsider. Henrik is a doctor from a well-to-do Oslo family. Though their marriage is under serious strain, they share a devotion to their twin sons and their work. Then a Pakistani Norwegian child is admitted to Henrik’s hospital and dies in his care. The boy had clearly been the victim of child abuse. Soon after, a related murder rocks the city.

Police investigator Susan Adler is ready to close the book on a deadly car accident, but after the medical examiner discovers evidence of foul play, she knows she has a murder on her hands. The victim was the wealthy wife of Randall Brock, a renowned psychiatrist who treats patients with disturbing, brutal fantasies. And just like that, Susan’s got a suspect.