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The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret.
Her own.
Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips—but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he—or she—know the truth?
Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she's terrified someone is determined to destroy her world—and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear.
How much will she risk to keep her perfect life?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret.
Her own.
Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips—but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he—or she—know the truth?
Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she's terrified someone is determined to destroy her world—and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear.
How much will she risk to keep her perfect life?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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      • source: B. A. Paris, internationally bestselling author of The Therapist and Behind Closed Doors
      • content: "Shocking, suspenseful, with clever twists and an abundance of secrets. Her Perfect Life kept me guessing until the end. I loved it!"
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      • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
      • content: "Superlative...this is a fast-paced, surprise-packed treat."
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      • source: Samantha Downing, bestselling author of My Lovely Wife
      • content: "When people say a book is a page-turner, they must be talking about Hank Phillippi Ryan. Her Perfect Life has everything: Compelling characters, a captivating story, and a pace that'll have you turning the pages deep into the night. You can't go wrong with a Ryan book, and this one is no exception."
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      • source: Julie Clark, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Last Flight
      • content: "Tense and twisty...You will read this in one sitting!"
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      • source: Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of Dear Wife and Stranger in the Lake
      • content: "There's a reason Hank Philippi Ryan keeps winning so many awards--she is a master at crafting suspense around fully formed characters with real emotion and depth. A mesmerizing thrill ride!"
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      • source: Christina McDonald, USA Today bestselling author of Do No Harm
      • content: "Her Perfect Life is a stunning, wonderfully tense thriller about deceit, grief, fame and perfection, and the secrets we carry beneath our skin. A magnificent, knockout thriller."
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      • source: Rachel Howzell Hall, author of And Now She's Gone
      • content: "I loved this book! Reading Hank Phillippi Ryan's Her Perfect Life made me paranoid--who's watching me, who's lying to me, who's hiding from their prior life? My nerves were shredded by the time I reached the last chapter of this big-hearted page-turner."
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        Starred review from July 5, 2021
        Boston TV reporter Lily Atwood, the protagonist of this superlative thriller from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Ryan (The First to Lie), “has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter.” Recently, Lily has acquired “a new and unerringly knowledgeable source,” known only as Mr. Smith, who has steered her and her longtime producer, Greer Whitfield, to some “slam-dunk stories.” Now, Mr. Smith seems to have delved deeper into Lily’s own story, in particular the incidents in her life she would prefer to keep hidden. The suspense builds as the narrative shifts among the points-of-view of Lily and Greer, and flashbacks to what happened to Cassie, Lily’s older sister, who disappeared without a trace 25 years earlier, when she was 18. The appearance of the father of Lily’s child, who hitherto has shown no interest in the girl, raises the stakes. Through masterful plotting and subtle characterizations, Ryan creates niggling doubts in the reader’s mind as to Lily and Greer’s motives while keeping the novel’s outcome deliciously uncertain. This is a fast-paced, surprise-packed treat. Agent: Lisa Gallagher, DeFiore Literary.

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        August 1, 2021

        In her latest stand-alone (after The First To Lie), Ryan ratchets up the tension as protagonist Lily Atwood's personal and professional lives collide. Lily is an award-winning television reporter who owes her last two big breaks to an anonymous source. That source is still calling her, but now the messages are more personal and clearly targeted at Lily and her seven-year-old daughter Rowan. Mr. Smith's news tips seem to have become part of a cat-and-mouse game that he's playing with Lily, and they may be connected to the disappearance of Lily's older sister years ago. Cassie disappeared from college when Lily was seven; that loss shaped the rest of Lily's childhood. She has spent the intervening years looking for Cassie everywhere. Pulled into the mix is Lily's producer Greer, who has her own agenda and who may endanger everything she and Lily have built. VERDICT Ryan has a sure hand with her page-turning, twisty plotting and complex, multifaceted characters. Readers looking for a fast, thrilling read will love this one.--Jane Jorgenson, Madison P.L., WI

        Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        Starred review from July 15, 2021
        A successful TV journalist and doting mom fights threats from the past and in the present in this fleet mystery. Lily Atwood seems to have it all--a thriving career as a crusading TV reporter, a throng of Emmys, a darling little daughter, and an adoring fan base that has dubbed her #PerfectLily. But Lily has secrets, the most haunting among them the disappearance of her sister when Cassie was a college freshman and Lily just 7 years old. Cassie vanished in the aftermath of a fire on her college campus that injured one of her professors and might have resulted in another student's death. After an intensive search, law enforcement interest in Cassie dwindled, but Lily never believed her sister was dead. Despite her reporting skills, she hasn't been able to find a trace of Cassie--until an anonymous source who's given her several legitimate tips about unrelated stories drops a bomb. The source claims he (or she; Lily isn't sure about the voice) knows Cassie is alive and where to find her. Lily's producer, a workaholic woman named Greer Whitfield, is soon in on the secret thanks to Walt Banning, a detective who seems to know a lot about the cold case. Lily is torn between wanting to find her sister and wanting to protect her own flawless public persona--if Cassie has stayed in hiding for so long, perhaps there's a very unpleasant reason. Lily is also reflexively protective of Rowen, her 7-year-old daughter and the center of her life. And there's another secret connected to Rowen--the girl has never met her father, and Lily wants to keep it that way. Ryan deftly switches points of view among Lily, Greer, and, in chapters set just before her disappearance, Cassie, keeping the reader guessing about characters' identities and different versions of events as the tension mounts. A well-crafted plot and strong female characters drive a satisfying psychological thriller.

        COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret.
Her own.
Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips—but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he—or she—know the truth?
Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she's terrified someone is determined to destroy her world—and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear.
How much will she risk to keep her perfect life?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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