The Surrogate - Katz, Lynn

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Résumé :
Deeply moved by the tragic Sandy Hook school shootings, Lynn Katz weaves together a compelling story that manages to raise all the key questions. -Harold I. Schwartz, M.D., Psychiatrist in Chief Emeritus Connecticut high school teacher, Jenn Cooper, falls under the spell of her more stylish double, a woman she encounters in a Key West bar. After a weekend of martinis and makeovers, Jenn is tricked into swapping lives for one month. She uncovers clues about her doppelganger's obsession with guns and the family's twisted dynamics. Jenn discovers dark secrets about Martin, her double's reclusive teenage son. But when she learns what Martin is plotting and that her own life is at risk, it's too late to turn back. With every plot twist, Jenn faces more obstacles and fewer options. She's on her own as she tries to save herself and prevent another American tragedy....

Biographie:
Lynn Katz is a former teacher, curriculum writer, and school principal. She writes adult and middle grade fiction and teaches writing workshops in Connecticut where she lives with her husband....

Sommaire:
A chance encounter in a sun-soaked Florida Keys bar becomes something far stranger when two women with identical faces make a drunken dare that neither can take back. Some swaps are not meant to be undone. Stepping into a stranger's home, she expects a manageable charade. What she finds instead is a marriage quietly imploding, a family fractured beyond recognition, and a locked door concealing something far more dangerous than secrets. Every fabricated conversation, every desperate act of domestic survival, pulls her deeper into a world shaped by family trauma and a maternal guilt she never agreed to carry. With each passing day, the quiet dread beneath the surface becomes impossible to ignore, and the stakes grow chillingly clear. Fans of Gillian Flynn and The Silent Patient will recognize the cold precision of a story that transforms ordinary desperation into something merciless. This is psychological suspense at its sharpest, earning every revelation through the slow, suffocating fracture of a life hiding in plain sight. If you are drawn to unreliable narrators and stories that refuse to let go long after the final page, this is your next obsession. Grab your copy and buy today before the price changes....