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To all appearances, the victim hit all the checkmarks of a successful life, working for an exclusive finance firm, a member of an exclusive yacht club, having the perfect house in suburbia, a wife, two kids, and a picket fence. But as FBI Special Agent Stella Fall goes deeper down the rabbit hole of evidence, she soon realizes he wasn’t as much of a good guy as he pretended to be. What was he really up to on Dad’s Night Out? On Dad’s weekends away? At his firm?

When a 40-year-old mother and divorcee is found murdered after a wild, college house party, FBI Special Agent Stella suspects there’s more to the story than partying gone awry. As Stella delves deeper into the case, it only becomes more complex and confusing, leading her to dead end, after dead end. Stella must unravel the questions at the heart of the case: Why was this divorcee at the party in the first place? Who wanted her dead? And why? Will the killer strike again? A fast-paced, psychological thriller with unforgettable characters, and heart-pounding suspense.

"Her First Ball" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories. A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins. They are going to a ball. Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there, she is both excited and terrified. After dancing with several young boys her own age, she dances with a wrinkly balding man who has been coming to balls for a while.

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood.

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. It is loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters.

A maniacal new killer leaves an eerie signature on his victims: what appears to be old-fashioned headphones. The FBI’s criminally insane unit is summoned, and FBI Special Agent Valerie Law must race to enter his mind and find out if a former mental patient is seeking revenge—or if this is something even more sinister.