At forty-three, Sonia has a life that many envy. She's
beautiful, talented, and connected. Her husband is a
wealthy doctor. Her daughter is at university. She has a
beautiful house on the Thames and yet...she can't shake the
feeling that there's something missing from her life. When
fifteen year old Jez, her friend's nephew, swings by to
borrow an album from Sonia, everything clicks into place.
She needs Jez and she'll stop at nothing to keep him with
her, even if it means sacrificing everything.
I read KEPT IN THE DARK by Penny Hancock with tears
threatening to spill, my pillow clutched to my chest, and
my heart aching for the characters from chapter one. It's
that good.
Sonia's obsession with the beautiful teenage boy is as
compelling as it is creepy, and throughout, Sonia struggles
to justify her actions to herself. It's this struggle
between her conscious and her need to keep Jez that pulls
the reader into the murky depths of Sonia's past, revealing
the core of her desire and her character. Penny Hancock's
use of the river Thames perfectly ties to Sonia's emotions
so that the river itself becomes an extension of Sonia's
need for Jez and the memories that haunt her. Beautifully
evocative, suspenseful, and heartbreaking, KEPT IN THE DARK
reveals how the currents of the past lurk dangerous and
deadly beneath the surface.
" At the house next door, respectability can hide all manner
of sins When her neighbor's fifteen-year-old nephew goes
missing, Sonia is the last person that anyone would suspect.
At forty-three, she is a strikingly attractive wife and
mother. And like the River House, her lovely home
overlooking the Thames, Sonia's life is a picture of
perfection and normalcy--until she meets Jez. From the
moment he shows up on Sonia's doorstep, the gorgeous teenage
boy awakens a torrent of memories that threaten to reveal a
terrifying truth. Drawn to Jez by a compulsion that she
scarcely understands, Sonia takes him captive--prepared to
sacrifice everything to keep him"--
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