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The Mother's Mistake by Ruth Heald was published by Bookouture on 06/11/19.  I was lucky enough to obtain a copy from NetGalley in exchange for my review. Claire has a loving husband, newborn daughter, and a home in the country...sounds like the dream life, right?  That couldn't be farther from the truth for Claire.  Her life is actually falling apart.  When a note turns up in her mailbox declaring that she doesn't deserve her daughter, Claire might just have this "perfect life" destroyed right in front of her very eyes. I read this book so fast.  The pace of the book demanded it.  It was so suspenseful.  It made me think of Sleeping with the Enemy.  When Julia Roberts' character runs away and starts her new life, she's always looking directly behind her for her past.  Claire is doing the same thing. I had a bookstagram friend who read the book shortly before I did keep telling me to hurry up and finish because the book would...

I was lucky enough to receive this ARC from NetGalley.  The book, published by Little, Brown and Company is scheduled for release on May 21st, 2019.  It has also been chosen as a selection for Book of the Month, if the spoiler posts remain true.  This will give BOTM members early access to the book before they can pick it up in stores. This book is about Stella and Violet, lifelong best friends.  Stella comes from money, and it's obvious she's never heard of the word "consequence."  Violet has had to scrape and scratch for everything.  She often accompanies Stella home on holidays because her family is so horrible.  Stella's family seem to "adopt" her, as long as that means they can brag about her accomplishments.  After college, Violet moves to New York and begins working for a cable company while Stella travels the world on her very own drug binge.  She claws her way up from intern, only to have Stella barge in and announce that sh...