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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