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Simon & Schuster
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
Featuring: Ani FaNelli
304 pages ISBN: 1476789630 EAN: 9781476789637 Kindle: B00LD1OITO Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller | Fiction
In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect lifeβhusband, home, and careerβuntil a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: sheβs a rising star at The Womenβs Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome blueblood. But behind that veneer of perfection lies a vulnerability that Ani holds close and buries deepβa very violent and public trauma from her past that has left her constantly trying to reinvent herself. And only she knows how far she would go to keep her secrets safe. When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, she hopes it will be an opportunity for public vindication. Armed with the trappings of successβexpensive clothes, high-powered byline, a massive engagement ringβshe is determined to silence the whispers of suspicion and blame from her past, and prove once and for all how far sheβs come since Bradley. Sheβll even let them film her lavish wedding on Nantucket, the final step in her transformation. But perfection doesnβt come without cost. As the wedding and filming converge, Aniβs meticulously crafted facade begins to buckle and crackβuntil an explosive revelation offers her a final chance at redemption, even as it rocks her picture-perfect world. Equal parts glitz and darkness, and with a singular voice and twisting plot, Luckiest Girl Alive reads like Sex & the Cityβif Carrie Bradshaw had a closet full of skeletons instead of shoes. In Ani FaNelli, Jessica Knoll has created a complex and vulnerable heroine who youβll be rooting for to the very last page.
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