[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 18:15:25 -0500
Hi, all.
I have just placed Every Secret Thing by Lila Shaara on the step one page for
your validating pleasure. Find the synopsis below.
Gina Paletta should have been used to upheaval. From her childhood in a small
southern town to her career in Manhattan's glamorous modeling world to sudden,
unplanned motherhood, Gina has forever struggled to keep her life under
control. Now, at thirty-three-her "year of waking up"-she has moved with her
young
sons to upstate New York and reinvented herself as a college professor. At last
she can nurse the fragile hope of safety, the hope of security.
But Gina learns that security is an illusion when a pair of police detectives
arrive at her doorstep. Two of Gina's students have posted salacious photographs
of her on a website. Even more troubling, these young men are suspects in a
local murder. Beneath the campus elms, amid the ivied masonry of the collegiate
buildings, and in the libraries where she secrets herself from the world, Gina
Paletta must now contend with a new sensation: terror.
As the tension rises, Gina turns to her family and friends, only to discover
lies and violence beneath placid surfaces. Fearful for her safety and that
of her children, determined to guard the new life she has built, Gina comes to
rely on the company and protection of one of the detectives assigned to
her case. Yet even as their relationship grows more complicated, the danger
around them mounts-and Gina finds herself marshaling reserves of strength and
resolve she never dreamed existed.
Riveting and hypnotic, lyrical and tense, Every Secret Thing is a remarkable
debut: a provocative psychological drama about love, guilt, fear, and every
secret thing that binds us together.
Shannon
I am only one; but still I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do
something. And, because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the
something I can do.
Everet Edward Hale
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