BOOKS BY BECCA DAY

She knows your secret. And she’s in your house.

Mellie’s future mother-in-law bursts into the bridal suite, a piece of paper clutched in her hand. ‘I know your secret,’ she says, a satisfied smile on her face. ‘And I will not let you marry my son.’

Two months later, anxiety twists in Mellie’s stomach as she watches the taxi arrive. She knew her mother-in-law would move in after her stroke, her husband Henry had insisted on it. But now they’re under the same roof, she knows she’s in danger…

Because locked is the attic is a piece of paper that could destroy everything. And Mellie knows that Pauline will expose her secret.

As Pauline rests, Mellie frantically searches the house for the key to the attic. But when she finds it and starts tearing through boxes of papers, her blood runs cold at what she finds. Hands shaking, she tries to make sense of the words in front of her, realising with a bolt of terror that Henry has his own dark secret. One that could destroy her.

Then she hears footsteps downstairs. The doctors said Pauline would be bedbound for weeks, but what if they were wrong?Neither woman knows what the other is truly capable of, and just how far they will go to protect their secrets. But who will make it out of this house alive?

My neighbour says he didn’t kill his wife. But I saw him.

When my doorbell camera alerts me to movement in the middle of the night, I’m instantly awake.

Our road is usually quiet, it’s why we live here. My ears strain for sounds inside the house as my heart hammers in my chest. This can’t be happening to us, I tell myself, not again…

My hands shake as I squint at the screen, but the camera is trained on the house across the street. I watch my neighbour as he struggles to lift something large into his car in the pouring rain. I only met Fraser and his wife Anna a few days ago when they moved in, but there’s something about him I don’t trust.

The next day, Anna has vanished. Fraser tells us she’s visiting family, but she told me she didn’t have any, it’s why she wanted to make friends here. Then I think of the bruises I saw on her arms, and the way I’d felt sure she was about to confide in me the last time we were alone…

I am convinced I am the only one who knows the truth. But the secret inside number 7 is more dangerous than I ever imagined. And now I’m not sure I will make it out alive…

Deep in the woods, you can hide more than secrets…

Every day, in a remote cabin hidden deep in the woods in the Scottish Highlands, Mary wakes up before dawn to make breakfast from scratch. She tends the garden and feeds the animals. Every night, Mary makes sure she has dinner on the table for when her husband Cal gets home from work.

She puts on his favourite lipstick and greets him with a smile. ‘I’ve missed you.’ It’s not true and he knows it. But he likes to hear it all the same.

Mary is the perfect wife and like any good wife she knows her job is to keep her husband happy.

But lately as she notices her first wrinkles appear, she can sense Cal change. A scowl at dinner not being ready on time, a too tight grip as he leads her to the bedroom tells her he’s noticed too. And old memories are coming back too, of her life before the cabin…

Then she finds a stack of letters hidden under the floorboards detailing a life eerily similar to her own. They’re addressed to her: ‘To the next woman.’

If she’s not the first to play the role of Cal’s perfect wife, what happened to the woman in the cabin before her? And how long does she have until she is next?

The perfect neighbourhood. The perfect friends. The perfect murder.

When Frankie moved into her new home, it was a dream come true. Living on one of the most exclusive streets in the country, where gleaming white houses looked out over golden sand and deep blue ocean. Nothing bad could have followed her there.

Her new neighbours – Zara, Nadine and Geneva – soon took her under their wing. The four women became inseparable. Until the morning when Geneva’s body was found on the beach.

Suspicion was immediately cast on Geneva’s husband. But when the police didn’t charge him, he vanished without trace. Now, five years later, he’s back.

Soon no one is beyond suspicion. Dark secrets that have been hiding behind closed doors begin to be revealed, with devastating consequences.

What really happened the night Geneva died? And how far will they all go to make sure their own secrets stay buried?

Everyone’s convinced her son is a killer, but Alex Forrester knows him best, doesn’t she?

Cynthia and Alex have always been like sisters. Living and working for years on Cynthia’s mother’s sprawling farm, they’ve raised their families together. It was the perfect life until the fateful night that Alex finds Hannah, one of Cynthia’s eighteen-year-old twins, inexplicably murdered in her own home.

Soon Alex’s life is spiralling out of control as she questions everything she knows and everyone she trusted. And when local detective, Stefani Warner starts investigating Hannah’s murder, one prime suspect quickly rises to the fore: Daniel, Alex’s nineteen-year-old son.

As Alex fights to protect him, she starts to uncover disturbing truths. Friendship, family bonds, even her own marriage are not what she thought, and threats seems to come from every direction, both invisible and way too close to home…

The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Behind the Gate