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Ballantine Books
June 2019
On Sale: May 28, 2019
352 pages
ISBN: 1524797057
EAN: 9781524797058
Kindle: B07H1ZYV9L
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Karen Cleveland

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A woman must confront her sense of right and wrong when the one person she loves most is accused of an unimaginable crime. From the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. . . . A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don’t know this person in front of me, even though he matters more to me than anyone ever has.

Stephanie Maddox works her dream job policing power and
exposing corruption within the FBI. Getting here has taken
her nearly two decades of hard work, laser-focus, and
personal sacrifices—the most important, she fears, being a
close relationship with her teenage son, Zachary. A single
parent, Steph’s missed a lot of school events, birthdays,
and vacations with her boy—but the truth is, she would move
heaven and earth for him, including protecting him from an
explosive secret in her past. It just never occurred to her
that Zachary would keep secrets of his own.

One day while straightening her son’s room, Steph is shaken to discover a gun hidden in his closet. A loaded gun. Then comes a knock at her front door—a colleague on the domestic terrorism squad, who utters three devastating words: “It’s about Zachary.” So begins a compulsively readable thriller of deception and betrayal, as Stephanie fights to clear her son’s name, only to expose a shadowy conspiracy that threatens to destroy them both—and bring a country to its knees. Packed with shocking twists and intense family drama, Keep You Close is an electrifying exploration of the shattering consequences of the love that binds—and sometimes blinds—a mother and her child.