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Also by Jessica Knoll:

Helpless, July 2026
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Bright Young Women, October 2023
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Luckiest Girl Alive, September 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Favorite Sister, April 2019
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The Favorite Sister, May 2018
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Luckiest Girl Alive, May 2015
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Luckiest Girl Alive, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE
By: Jessica Knoll

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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Other Editions
Paperback (May 2015), Trade Paperback (reprint - September 2022)

Thriller | Fiction

In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life—husband, home, and career—until 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: she’s a rising star at The Women’s 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 deep—a 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 success—expensive clothes, high-powered byline, a massive engagement ring—she is determined to silence the whispers of suspicion and blame from her past, and prove once and for all how far she’s come since Bradley. She’ll even let them film her lavish wedding on Nantucket, the final step in her transformation.

But perfection doesn’t come without cost. As the wedding and filming converge, Ani’s meticulously crafted facade begins to buckle and crack—until 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 City—if Carrie Bradshaw had a closet full of skeletons instead of shoes. In Ani FaNelli, Jessica Knoll has created a complex and vulnerable heroine who you’ll be rooting for to the very last page.

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