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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney

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Also by Caroline B. Cooney:

The Wrong Good Deed, May 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Grandmother Plot, July 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Before She Was Helen, May 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Before She Was Helen, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
No Such Person, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

Before She Was Helen
Caroline B. Cooney


Her life didn't turn out the way she expected--so she made herself a new one

Poisoned Pen Press
September 2020
On Sale: September 8, 2020
320 pages
ISBN: 1728205123
EAN: 9781728205120
Kindle: B082L5ZLNG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Size (May 2021)

Fiction | Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Police Procedural

When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn't there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it. As the picture swirls over the internet, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets. Can fifty years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture?

And although what Clemmie finds is a work of art, what the police find is a body. . . in a place where Clemmie wasn't supposed to be, and where she left her fingerprints. Suddenly, the bland, quiet life Clemmie has built for herself in her sleepy South Carolina retirement community comes crashing down as her dark past surges into the present.

From international bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney comes Before She Was Helen, an absorbing mystery that brings decades-old secrets to life and explores what happens when the lie you've been living falls apart and you're forced to confront the truth.

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Re: Before She Was Helen

It sounds like this might get intense real quick.
(Robert Young 1:19pm September 9, 2020)

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