She knows what it's like to be left behind. That's why she said yes.
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> When a silent little girl is abandoned at court, Anna isn't the obvious choice to take her in. But something about the child feels painfully familiar--and impossible to walk away from.
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> She thinks it's temporary. Just until the system finds a better option. But then a figure from her past resurfaces--the one she thought she'd escaped for good.
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> He's watching. Waiting. And the closer he gets, the more Anna's carefully rebuilt life begins to splinter.
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> The girl won't speak. Anna won't run. But protecting her means facing the darkness she's spent years trying to forget.
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> Selfish is a tense psychological thriller in the When Bad Things Happen series--gripping, intimate stories of ordinary women whose lives are upended by betrayal, danger, and the unexpected.
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> Praise for the When Bad Things Happen Series:
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> ★★★★★ "The characters are normal people that are you and me and my neighbors and my friends and family. The characters are us. All of us."
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> ★★★★★ "These books are addictive. I just keep wanting to read more!"
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> ★★★★★ "This book series is one you start and can't put down. Recommend it."
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> ★★★★★ "This story grabbed me and wouldn't let go... it kept me up way too late many nights because I couldn't put it down."
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> ★★★★★ "Kept me up all night, in a good way, to finish it."
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> ★★★★★ "The story is compelling to the point of me not being able to do anything but read until I found out how it ended."
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> ★★★★★ "Edge-of-your-seat reading that you can't put down."
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> ★★★★★ "It was a believable plot with the main character so well defined it was like you knew her."