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Also by Jillian Medoff:

When We Were Bright and Beautiful, August 2023
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
When We Were Bright and Beautiful, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
This Could Hurt, January 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
I Couldn't Love You More, May 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Hunger Point, October 2002
Paperback / e-Book

WHEN WE WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
By: Jillian Medoff

Harper Paperbacks
August 2023
On Sale: August 15, 2023
Featuring: Cassie Quinn
368 pages
ISBN: 0063142031
EAN: 9780063142039
Kindle: B09HSC2XYC
Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
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Other Editions
Hardcover (July 2022)

Thriller Psychological | Coming of Age

The acclaimed, bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet—an electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattan’s glittering Upper East Side, that explores the dark side of love, the limits of loyalty, and the high cost of truth.

You can have everything, and still not have enough. 

Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money can’t buy happiness, but it’s certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist.

When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence and Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy, but Billy fits the all-too-familiar sex-offender profile—white, athletic, and privileged—that makes headlines and sways juries.

Meanwhile, Cassie struggles to understand why Billy’s ex Diana would go this far, even if the breakup was painful. And she knows how the end of first love can destroy someone: Her own years-long affair with a powerful, charismatic man left her shattered, and she’s only recently regained her footing.   

As reporters converge outside their Upper East Side landmark building, the Quinns gird themselves for a media-saturated trial, and Cassie vows she’ll do whatever it takes to save Billy. But what if that means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world?

Lightning-paced and psychologically astute as it rockets toward an explosive ending, When We Were Bright and Beautiful is a dazzling novel that asks: who will pay the price when the truth is revealed?