“A deep, dark, and dangerously addictive read. Electrifying and atmospheric, this dark gem of a novel is one I couldn’t put down.” -Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author When She Returned, page 1 Select Voice: Try our free service - convert any of your text to speech More than 10 english voices show page numbers PRAISE FOR THE PERFECT CHILD A mesmerizing, unbearably tense thriller that will have you looking over your shoulder and sleeping with one eye open. This creepy, serpentine tale explores the darkest corners of parenthood and the profoundly unsettling lengths one will go to to keep a family together-no matter the consequences. “A mesmerizing, unbearably tense thriller that will have you looking over your shoulder and sleeping with one eye open. “n the nightmare scale, Lucinda Berry’s thriller may top the charts.” -Popular Culture Association But, needless to say, it’s chilling.” -Gina Kolata, New York Times But in private-well, I won’t give away what happens. She can be sweet and loving, and in public is adorable. They’re told it might take a while for her to learn to behave and trust people. A couple, desperate for a child, have the chance to adopt a beautiful little girl who, they are told, has been abused. It speaks to the fear of every parent: What if your child is a psychopath? This novel takes it a step farther. But there was one book that kept me reading, the sort of novel I can’t put down… The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry. I have been so disappointed when well-known writers came out with books that, to me, were just duds. A series of shocking revelations will show that the return of Kate is far darker than they thought.“I am a compulsive reader of literary novels-but this has been a terrible year for fiction that is actually readable, and not experimental. They try to help her get back her life, but find something much different.

He has remarried, their daughter doesn’t remember her, and Kate acts much differently than she did before. The return of Kate flips the lives of her husband and daughter upside down. She enjoys taking her readers on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche. Now, she spends her days writing full-time where she uses her clinical experience to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction. Today, she has returned to a Montana gas station with an infant daughter, screaming for help. Lucinda Berry is a former clinical psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. When She Returned begins eleven years after Kate Bennet when missing. The lie can’t kill the truth though and now the two must fight to save what lives they have built. Krystal starts answering questions which leads her to the sister’s own dark history. Until the day she swore that her husband wasn’t really her husband. Krystal became a lawyer and Nichole married an architect with a happy marriage. After a tough upbringing, the two found good lives. They have always been there for each other so when Nichole ends up in a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal is right there.

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