


This discovery sparks Marin back to life. She hires a PI to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding Sebastian, she learns that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman. They're admired in their community and are a loving family-until their world falls apart the day their son, Sebastian, is taken.Ī year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. "Suspenseful and compelling-Hillier is a masterful storyteller." (Chevy Stevens)Īll it takes to unravel a life is one little secret.

(Apr.Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense. Agent: Victoria Skurnick, Levine Greenberg. Though a few of the twists down the frenetic home stretch seem forced, until then Hillier sustains a captivating double helix of duplicity. But her rage also threatens to propel this sympathetic protagonist into a rash, potentially catastrophic decision, encouraged by her best friend and onetime boyfriend, an ex-con, who has his own devious agenda. Following the initial shock of the revelation, the furious Marin feels empowered, almost exhilarated.

But that’s before the PI Marin hired after the case went cold shares her chance but devastating discovery that Derek’s having an affair with a much younger woman, catapulting Marin into an even darker circle of hell. Celebrity hairstylist Marin Machado, the heroine of this diabolically plotted psychological thriller of lust, obsession, greed, and betrayal from Thriller Award–winner Hillier ( Jar of Hearts), believes she’s hit bottom during the 16 months since her four-year-old son was snatched while they were Christmas shopping at a Seattle farmers’ market-something for which she can’t stop blaming herself, nor can her entrepreneur husband of almost 20 years, Derek.
