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Live to Tell
Author: Wendy Corsi Staub
Publisher: Avon/HarperCollins
Pub. Date: February 23, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0061895067
Retail: $7.99
400 pages

Secrets can scandalize …

In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they’re talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned by your husband for another woman. They’re wrong …

Secrets can shock …

All Lauren wants is to protect her children from the pain of her messy divorce. But when their father goes missing, a case of mistaken identity puts all their lives in danger, and a stealthy predator lurks in the shadows, watching…waiting…

Secrets can kill …

Lauren is about to uncover an unfathomable truth—a truth this cold-blooded mastermind would never let her live to tell…

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A dastardly villain, a devoted mother and spine chilling suspense are the dynamic combination that makes LIVE TO TELL a completely “un-put-downable” brilliant success.

Impeccably crafted, LIVE TO TELL is suspense at its most terrifying. Wendy Corsi Staub has a gift for drawing readers into the story from page one. Edge of your seat suspense and riveting characters leave readers helpless to keep turning the pages. Using an ordinary storyline, Wendy Corsi Staub amps up the premise with precision as we follow Lauren Walsh through a messy divorce that soon becomes so much more.

In the suburbs of New York residents are talking about Lauren Walsh and her husband’s abandonment for another woman. Wanting only to protect her children from the pain, she has no idea her husband, Nick, has set a chilling plot into motion that revolves around a stuffed rabbit.

A predator is watching and he will not rest until all of them are dead. When Lauren notices someone watching the house she also realizes her daughter, Sadie, is in the stalker’s sights. When Sadie reports that someone has furtively entered her room one night, Lauren is in a panic.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Garvey Quinn has secrets that could damage his career and draws readers into guessing what it could be. He has the Walsh family followed and wants the stuffed rabbit retrieved at all costs. There is another woman whose son’s disappearance is tied to Garvey as well, and she is about to find out what happens in the inner circles of Garvey’s orbit.

Rating: 9 (Excellent)

Heat-Level: 3: (Sensual)