Something new from author Nicola Marsh!

The Scandal: A gripping emotional page turner with a breathtaking twist

Author: Nicola Marsh

Release Date: July 25, 2019

Publisher: Bookouture

Genre: Suspense/Thriller/Fiction

My life is like one of those cheap snow globes my twins collected when they were younger. Shiny and pretty on the outside, blurred beyond recognition when shaken.

Ever since her twin girls left home, Marisa has felt there’s something missing from her life. Her sprawling mansion is no longer filled with laughter and chaos, and she’s desperate to feel needed... and to be distracted from the secret she’s been hiding from her husband for all these years.

Coffee with her best friends might be the only thing holding Marisa together. But Claire and Elly have their own secrets. Like why Claire hasn’t been to work in weeks, or why Elly won’t tell anyone who’s buying her flowers.

When Jodi, a pregnant young girl, turns up at Marisa’s doorstep, Marisa is quick to come to her aid. She sees herself in Jodi and she knows how devoting yourself to looking after others can take up all your time in the most marvellous way.

But Jodi’s arrival quickly pushes everyone’s lies to the surface. The father of her unborn child is someone the women know very well, and Marisa starts to wonder if her obsession with helping Jodi might come at a devastating price…

The Scandal has a twist that will take your breath away. An emotionally charged novel about secrets, affairs and perfect small towns that will be devoured by fans of Kerry Fisher, Big Little Lies and The Other Woman.

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Nicola Marsh

USA TODAY bestselling author and multi-award winner Nicola Marsh writes feel-good fiction…with a twist.

She has published 69 contemporary novels with Harlequin, Amazon and indie, and sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Her first mainstream romance BUSTED IN BOLLYWOOD was nominated for Romantic Book of the Year.

She currently writes rural romance for Harper Collins Australia, emotional, twisty, women’s fiction for Bookouture and contemporary romance for Harlequin’s Dare series.

She has also written spooky novels for teens. BANISH, a supernatural thriller that released with Harlequin Teen Australia, and a YA urban fantasy SCION OF THE SUN that won a National Readers’ Choice Award for Best Young Adult novel.

She’s also a Waldenbooks, Bookscan and Barnes & Noble bestseller, a RBY (Romantic Book of the Year) and National Readers’ Choice Award winner, and a multi-finalist for a number of awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, Booksellers’ Best, Golden Quill, Laurel Wreath, More than Magic and has also won several CataRomance Reviewers’ Choice Awards.

A physiotherapist for thirteen years, she now adores writing full time, raising her two dashing heroes, sharing fine food with family and friends, and her favourite, curling up with a good book!

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Sometimes the title of perfection is hard to uphold, and that couldn't be truer for these three wealthy and elite women living in the Hamptons. Each have their own little secrets, appearances they are expected to maintain, and lies they tell themselves to keep themselves sane. Marisa is a bored empty-nester who craves attention of her ever-absent husband. Elly, a secretly divorced woman, that has a secret lover, and loads of secrets she hopes never come to light. And Claire, a woman struggling to keep her marriage afloat with hopes of having a child, only to discover that little dream may never come true. These ladies have a surplus of drama, but try their best to keep it under-wraps, it's all about the image of perfection in their world.

But their immaculate little worlds are all about to unravel around them with the arrival of a young pregnant woman who claims one of their husbands is the father to her child... this is a scandal no amount of little white lies can cover up!

The Scandal is a gripping story about three wealthy women who struggle to maintain the perfection expected in their glamorous worlds... and one pregnant woman who has the power to destroy them. This crafty little page-turner sucked me in from the first page and held me hostage until the last... it was like an episode of Desperate Housewives on crack! These ladies and all their little white lies were thoroughly entertaining, the levels they went to to keep their secrets were shocking and quite devious. I have read other books by this author, and loved them, but I must say this is my favorite from her by far, I loved this new suspenseful side of her work. Her words were absorbing, the characters were perfectly crafted. And the story line was riddle with twists and turns, jaw dropping drama and thrilling suspense! Highly recommend you get your hands on this one, it promises to thrill!

I requested an advanced copy of this title from NetGalley, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest opinion.

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