

- Rich people, Kidnapping, Man-woman relationships, Police
Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, at first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life. Colin's job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota, evading the police and his deadly superiors. Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them, but no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Mary Kubica
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Harlequin Mira, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780778319252
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“I'm sitting at the breakfast nook sipping from a mug of cocoa when the phone rings.”
Mary Kubica is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense thrillers including ***The Good Girl***, ***The Other Mrs.***, and ***Local Woman Missing***. Her first novel ***The Good Girl*** was an Indie Next pick in August of 2014, received a Strand Critics Nomination for Best First Novel and was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards in Debut Goodreads Author and in Mystery & Thriller for 2014. Mary’s novels have been selected as Amazon Best Books of the Month and have been LibraryReads selections. They’ve been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. She’s been described as “a helluva storyteller,” (Kirkus Reviews) and “a writer of vice-l
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