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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