Every Last Secret

by A. R. Torre

Overview

Welcome to the neighborhood. Watch your husband, watch your friends, and watch your back.

Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality.

Neena Ryder isn’t a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasn’t delivered, she’s anxious to move up in the world. This beautiful new town is a step in the right direction. It’s also making Neena aware of what she doesn’t have. Namely, William. When Neena’s infatuation escalates into obsession, it’s just a matter of eliminating a few obstacles to get the life she wants. The life next door.

As Neena’s secret fixation grows, so does her friendship with Cat. But beneath their cordial interactions is a wealth of temptations, secrets, and toxic jealousy. For both women, the desire for a perfect life can turn perfectly dangerous.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542020190
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2020
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

A. R. Torre is a pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Alessandra Torre. Torre is an award-winning bestselling author of more than twenty novels. Torre has been featured in such publications as Elle and Elle UK and has guest-blogged for the Huffington Post. In addition to writing, Torre is the creator of Alessandra Torre Ink, a website, community, and online school for aspiring authors. Learn more at www.alessandratorre.com.

Editorial Reviews

08/31/2020

At the start of this chilling tale of deceit and betrayal from Torre (The Girl in 6E), the police arrest life coach Neena Ryder, because she’s “under suspicion of attempted murder.” Flash back four months. Cat Winthorpe enjoys an idyllic life with William, her “devastatingly handsome” husband, the head of Winthorpe Technologies, in upscale Atherton, Calif. Then William hires Neena to be a motivational coach at his company, and Neena and her husband, Matt, buy the home next door to the Winthorpes. Neena gradually insinuates herself into Cat and William’s lives, and sets out to seduce William. Cat becomes suspicious of Neena’s behavior and hires a private investigator to look into Neena’s past. Meanwhile, an intruder breaks into Neena and Matt’s house. Torre keeps the suspense high up to the shocking reveal behind Neena’s arrest. Credible characters complement the fast-paced plot. Readers will be riveted from page one. Agent: Maura Kye-Casella: Don Congdon Agency. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

“Deliciously, sublimely nasty: Mean Girls for grown-ups.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Torre keeps the suspense high…Readers will be riveted from page one.” —Publishers Weekly

“A chilling domestic thriller about power and deception, A. R. Torre’s latest novel, Every Last Secret, has all the elements to keep the reader enthralled, with just enough darkness to provide needed twists for a complex plot.” —Mystery & Suspense Magazine

“Well thought out and with a superb flow from start to finish, Every Last Secret is perfect for fans of domestic thrillers.” —Seattle Book Review

“Every Last Secret is a fun and fast ride.” —Betches

“A glamorous and seductive novel that will suck you in and knock you sideways. I love this story, these characters, and the raw emotion they generated in me. I devoured every word. Exceptional.” —Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author

“Raw and riveting. A clever ride that will make you question everyone and everything.” —Meredith Wild, #1 New York Times bestselling author

From the Publisher

2020-08-19
The blow-by-blow battle between two Silicon Valley wives over one of their husbands and a whole lot more.

In this corner is Catherine Winthorpe, effortlessly beautiful wife to sexy, rugged, demanding, fabulously wealthy William Winthorpe, who treats the high-salaried employees he’s pushing to perfect and market a breakthrough new medical device like serfs and his wife like a queen. In this corner is Neena Ryder, Winthorpe Technologies’ new director of motivation, who loses no opportunity to correct everyone who calls her Mrs. Ryder that it’s Dr. Ryder. Though her own amiable mate, demolition contractor Matthew Ryder, loves her to pieces and makes just enough to have bought the place next door to the Winthorpe’s baronial estate in untouchable Atherton, Neena’s determined to seduce William because she wants to trade up on husbands or, failing that, get a seven-figure payoff to go away—and because she’s taken a particular dislike to Cat, who represents all the women Neena’s fought over the years and who’s begging to be taken down a peg or 10. The rules of engagement are flexible—open flirting, barefaced lying, charity committee blackballing, and criminal conspiracy are all perfectly acceptable—but a prologue makes it clear that the rivalry will eventually end up under the purview of the Atherton Police Department. Torre raises the heat on the plotting and counterplotting with such delicate mastery that even readers who can see perfectly well where this is all going will race to watch it get there.

Deliciously, sublimely nasty: Mean Girls for grown-ups.

Kirkus Reviews