From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip comes an electrifying next novel.
California, 2011: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in the small seaside town of Coronado with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the 1980s—unveiling the threads of a life she left behind years ago. The same day, her daughter goes missing and the school claims her aunt picked her up . . . but she doesn't have an aunt. Convinced of a link between the two, Nicole is forced to revisit long-abandoned memories from her past to protect everything she now holds dear.
London, 1986: Sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober, the hottest band of the moment. Harboring an intense crush on the leading man, Ben Edwards, she will do anything she can to capture his attention among the throngs of groupies at the band's scandalous backstage parties. But when Ben discovers her older sister Nicole singing at a local bar one night, he can't help but feel drawn to her, setting in motion a collision course that could tear their family apart.
Infused with the sounds of the 80s, this thrilling novel from the inimitable Sandie Jones explores the chaos that the frenzy of fandom can provoke.
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- ISBN: 9781250910042
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March 1, 2025
Jones (The Other Woman, a Reese's Book Club pick) gets a 100K-copy first printing for this thriller set in part in the 1980s London music scene. In 1986, singer Ben Edwards is drawn to teenaged Nicole, even though her sister Cassie is obsessed with him. In the present day, Nicole's daughter has gone missing, having allegedly been picked up by her aunt--but she doesn't have an aunt. Prepub Alert.
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February 7, 2025
Jones' eerie, suspenseful story switches between 1986 London and California in 2011. Cassie is enraptured by Ben Edwards, lead singer for popular rock group Secret Oktober, and believes that since he caught her eye and even took her hand once, they have a relationship--or at least the promise of one. Nicole, her older sister, is more sensible--a wannabe singer-songwriter, she's moved away from home and works as a waitress, waiting for fame to come her way. But chance puts her onto Ben's radar, and unbeknownst to Cassie, Nicole and Ben start a relationship. However, Cassie's obsessive jealousy and refusal to believe Ben isn't in love with her lead to a horrifying disaster. Years later, Nicole is married with a little girl and living in California. When Nicole's past blindsides her, she can only stand in the path of the terrible vengeance that fate seems determined to wreak on her. Complex, haunting, and full of shocking twists, this corker of a story shows how the deadly combination of jealousy, misplaced passion, revenge, obsession, and even love can have devastating consequences.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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April 1, 2025
A young woman falls in love with a British pop star only to become entangled in an explosive situation involving deceit, drugs, murder, and the tragic delusions of her younger sister. Londoner Nicole Forbes loves the quiet life she and her Navy SEAL husband built in the sunny seaside town of Coronado, California. But when her daughter, Hannah, gets taken out of school one day by a mysterious woman she tells her parents is her "auntie," Nicole fears that the past she tried to outrun more than two decades earlier has returned for a reckoning. In weaving Nicole's first-person, present-tense perspective with one that is third person and past tense, Jones creates a fabulously addictive story about betrayal and retribution. In the 1980s, Nicole and her 16-year-old sister, Cassie, develop independent relationships with Ben Edwards, the lead singer of a hugely popular band named Secret Oktober. While Cassie is a groupie who fights for flirtatious backstage encounters with Ben, Nicole meets him at a bar, where he compliments her for a song she wrote and sang. Unknown to the star-struck Cassie, Nicole and Ben become musical collaborators and then lovers. When salacious news articles about drug parties and women come to light about Ben and his band, Nicole is heartbroken, unaware that Cassie was arrested for participating in one such party. The situation unravels quickly after that when the mysterious drug-related death of a Secret Oktober bandmate forces Ben, Nicole, and Cassie into painful realizations about themselves and each other. Well paced, intelligent, and tightly plotted, this novel will appeal not only to lovers of suspense but anyone with a penchant for stories that explore the fraught relationship between obsessive love and fame. A riveting thriller about people caught up in--and destroyed by--the glitter of fandom.COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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