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Jan Ellison, author of A Small Indiscretion

At 19, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking to oblivion and yearning for deliverance. Some two decades later, she is married to a good man and settled in San Francisco, with a son and two daughters and a successful career designing artistic interior lights. One June morning, a photograph arrives in her mailbox, igniting an old longing and setting off a chain of events that rock the foundations of her marriage and threaten to overturn her family’s hard-won happiness.

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Jane Green, author of Saving Grace

As Ted and Grace Chapman’s picture-perfect life begins to crumble, they are rescued by Beth, an assistant promising to calm Ted’s rages and lend Grace emotional support. But Grace harbors dark secrets in her past, and Beth’s persona might be too good to be true. It soon appears that this new interloper might be the biggest threat of all, one that could cost Grace her marriage, her reputation and even her sanity.

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Reliable Reads from Unreliable Narrators

Oh, how we love unreliable narrators! They reel us in and wrap our minds around their stories, which often sound so authentic. The fun of these books is peeling away the layers to get to the truth. Many times, when we close these books, we want to go back and look at how the story was crafted. What made us believe? Here are 20 books that do just that.

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Win 12 Copies of A SMALL INDISCRETION by Jan Ellison for Your Group

Each month, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.

—Meg Donohue, author of ALL THE SUMMER GIRLS

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Natalie D. Richards

Ohioan and Double RWA Golden Heart Finalist Natalie D. Richards won her first writing competition in the second grade with her short story about Barbara Frances Bizzlefishes (who wouldn't dare do the dishes). After getting lost in a maze of cubicles, Natalie found her way back to storytelling, following the genre of her heart --- teen fiction. Natalie lives in Ohio with her amazing husband, their three children and a giant dust-mop who swears he’s the family dog.

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