‘WOW… what a brilliant book… I just loved it.’ 5 stars, Amazon reviewer
Can you trust a sister who is a stranger?
Ella Matthews has it all. A beautiful house, a charming husband and a precious baby daughter – her life has pretty much turned out exactly as she planned.
But when Ella’s mother tragically dies, her perfect life starts to crack. Her mother had been harbouring a life-long secret. … Her mother had been harbouring a life-long secret. Ella has a sister – an older sister – called Colleen.
Excited by the thought of no-longer being an only child, Ella can’t wait to find her.
But Colleen has a whirlwind past of her own. Desperate to escape her troubles, she is ready to go to any length to start afresh.
As their paths collide, someone is keeping secrets… and when Colleen mysteriously disappears without notice, Ella can’t help but question if she should have started looking for her at all…
Readers LOVE The Secret Sister
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‘I was drawn into this story from the start. I found every excuse that I could to get back to reading the book.’ 5 stars, Ginger Book Geek
‘Dark and delicious. A genius thriller.’ 5 stars, Netgalley reviewer
‘Prepare for an all night read!’ 5 stars, Amazon reviewer
‘Enticing and emotional and thoroughly enjoyable.’ 5 stars, Amazon reviewer
‘A wonderfully gripping read from start to finish’ 5 stars, Netgalley Reviewer
‘I absolutely loved it!’ 5 stars, Netgalley Reviewer
‘I highly recommend reading The Secret Sister. It’s intense, quick-paced, has well developed characters, & a plot that’s full of twists. Once I started reading, I could not put it down!!’ 5 stars, Netgalley Reviewer
‘Excellent plot, characterization, and even a twist!’ 5 stars, Netgalley Reviewer
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This book is an excellent read. I highly recommend.
A good one to keep you guessing!
Great read. Definitely a page turner!
I’ve always enjoyed individual books by these two authors and was very much looking forward to reading The Secret Sister. The story was seamless, and I never would have known that it was written by two people.
Ella is happily married with a little daughter when her mother, Anna dies. While she’s going through her mother’s possessions, Ella discovers a box containing a few items, one of which is a photo of Anna with a baby who she doesn’t recognise and with the baby’s name, name ‘Colleen’ written on the back. She finds a letter from a man she’s never heard off saying they’ve done the right thing. It seems that Ella isn’t an only child after all. She decides to trace her sister and get to know her.
Colleen’s life isn’t as settled as Ella’s though. She’s just left her controlling husband, not that he is about to let her continue with her single life. The woman she had always considered to be her mother tells her that she isn’t, but that a woman called Anna was her true parent and that Anna had recently died. Colleen feels let down by the lies and determines to connect with her birth father. When Ella traces her, Colleen invites her new sister over to Sligo so that they can become acquainted. Neither woman can imagine the events that their meeting will trigger.
This is a fast-paced story full of intrigue and heart-stopping moments. I read it in one sitting determined to discover what would happen to the two women before I could go to sleep. Definitely a must-read book!
The whole way thru the book, I kept thinking “TSTL”….Too Stupid To Live. Just totally unbelievable story line. I was actually cheering for the bad guys at the end.
Kept you guessing to the end
When Ella’s mother died, she finds evidence that she had been hiding a secret from everyone. Ella has an older sister, Colleen, that she never knew about.
Ella can hardly hold her excitement in check at the thought of a sister. But Ella’s husband is skeptical of the idea.
When finally they meet, Colleen gets drunk and makes a couple of passes to Ella’s husband. Seems like Colleen has some secrets of her own .. like running from an abusive husband. There’s nothing more that Colleen wants than to escape her past and start over.
When Colleen disappears after an argument with Ella, she feels obligated to look for her …but what she finds may put her own life in danger.
Can you trust a sister who is a stranger?
This is a well-written psychological thriller, it’s full of twists and turns and deep dark secrets that have been hidden a life time. The characters are sharply described and the differences between the sisters are intriguing.
Many thanks to the authors / HQ Digital / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological drama. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.