
Friends with Secrets
A Novel
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In a funny and suspenseful debut, Christine Gunderson explores the myth of the perfect mother, the bonds of female friendship, and the haunting impact of secrets.
What you see isn’t always what you get.
Take Ainsley. The gorgeous mother of two lives a picture-perfect life with her husband, Ben—aspiring politician and heir to a candy fortune—in suburban Washington, DC. But in reality, Ainsley has no idea what she’s doing and is terrified someone will figure out who she really is and where she came from.
Nikki’s fighting to keep afloat as a stay-at-home mother of four, subsisting on chicken nuggets and very little sleep. She’s a mess on the outside, and inside yearns for the validation—and the paycheck—of the television news career she left behind.
When a dangerous figure from Ainsley’s past becomes a coach at her kids’ school, she fears the worst and confides in Nikki, spilling every detail of her former life.
Together, they devise a plan to expose the coach and safeguard their kids. But can they protect their own lives—and their new friendship—in the process?
©2024 by Christine Gunderson. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“With a particularly impressive blending of humor and suspense…effectively [showcasing] author Christine Gunderson’s natural and distinctive storytelling style that has created an original and fun read from cover to cover.” —Midwest Book Review
“Funny and poignant, Friends with Secrets is a feel-good book about balancing motherhood, friendship, and career.”—Liz Talley, USA Today bestselling author of Deconstructed
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Crime analyst and newly disgraced deputy police chief Vera Boyett doesn’t visit home often, and she certainly doesn’t venture back into the cave on her family land. But when the remains of her long-missing stepmother are discovered, Vera will have to face a past that threatens all she is. She and her sister Eve had a fairy-tale childhood: good until it was tragic, with a stepmother they never found a bond with. At least they had each other, a baby half-sister, and a mutual devotion that would have them do the unthinkable.
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Elsie Arsenault does an excellent performance the book Deeper Than the Dead.
- By Mr.Bill on 01-31-25
By: Debra Webb
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The Vacation Rental
- A Novel
- By: Katie Sise
- Narrated by: Michelle Price, Anne Marie Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August, it’s off to the relaxing Connecticut shore for her; her husband, Tom; and their young daughter. It’s just what they need to ease family tensions and reconnect. All that’s left to do is leave behind their house keys—to a stranger. For Anna, Georgia and Tom’s house in the cool woodlands is a dream break from the oppressive heat of a New York City summer—and from an increasingly ill-fated relationship with her lover. A month apart and Anna can clear her head and reassess her future. She’s found the perfect place to do it.
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A tearjerker thriller
- By Melissa Armstrong on 08-24-24
By: Katie Sise
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Elizabeth's Mountain
- By: Lucille Guarino
- Narrated by: Deborah Kosnett
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth is a feisty ninety-year-old widow keeping a secret. Developers have tendered a lucrative offer for her beloved Blue Ridge mountain home in Asheville, North Carolina. She knows her children will pressure her to sell it against her own wishes. But any hope of protecting it clashes with her gnawing awareness of the time she has left.
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Easy summer story
- By Lori on 08-08-24
By: Lucille Guarino
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The Unraveling
- A Novel
- By: Vi Keeland
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Aiden Snow
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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After experiencing a terrible loss, New York City psychiatrist Meredith McCall feels painfully adrift. When she crosses paths with a man with whom she has a tragic connection, she follows him, sparking an unhealthy obsession with Gabriel Wright. How is he doing so well while her life is in shambles? But when Gabriel walks into her office as a patient, seemingly unaware of who she is, she knows it crosses all ethical and moral bounds to treat him. Yet, Meredith can’t bring herself to turn him away and becomes further entangled.
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The author did ZERO research for her book
- By Jon Blowers on 08-19-24
By: Vi Keeland
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The House of Lost Secrets
- By: Anstey Harris
- Narrated by: Annabelle Dowler, Elle Newlands
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding’s sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she fell in love with the sea air, sandy beach and Tristan, Rachel’s older brother… All these years later, Clachan is where their most important occasions and conversations take place, so when Rachel organises a weekend there, Jo never suspects that this weekend will change everything.
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The House Lost Secrets
- By Sharon Lewis on 10-08-24
By: Anstey Harris
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The Moonflowers
- A Novel
- By: Abigail Rose-Marie
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he’s a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.
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Excellent
- By Jen Novak on 12-28-24
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The Ten Worst People in New York
- By: Matt Plass
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons, Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A late-night TV chat show feature, The Ten Worst People in New York, is the talk of the town. When a real estate mogul on the Ten Worst list jumps to his death, it could be a coincidence. But after a corrupt NYC councilor, also on the list, dies suspiciously, recently widowed Special FBI Agent Alex Bedford suspects foul play. Young British filmmaker Jacob Felle arrives in New York to connect with his estranged sister, Elizabeth, and to reconcile a long-buried family trauma. But Alex and Jacob are on a collision course.
By: Matt Plass
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Alternate Endings
- By: Ali Rosen
- Narrated by: Maria Marquis
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Beatrice Leal’s personal life is complicated between her divorce and her precocious six-year-old. But the job she loves is the one thing she counts on to be straightforward—that is, until her boss’s own divorce prompts a move from NYC back to Ireland. Now Bea’s in Ireland twice a month for work. It’s wreaking havoc on the custody agreement she and her moody ex are sorting out while he lives downstairs in the brownstone they co-own. And to top it off, her company’s new CTO turns out to be the boy who once broke her heart: Jack Sander.
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I loved it
- By Kindle Customer on 03-19-25
By: Ali Rosen
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The Examiner
- A Novel
- By: Janice Hallett
- Narrated by: Anushka Chakravarti, Brendan Dempsey, Jonathan Andrew Hume, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University’s new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom for her new master’s program before the university cuts her funding. The students are nothing but trouble from day one. When the examiner, the man hired to grade students’ final workssifts through the students’ final essays, texts, and message boards, he becomes convinced that someone is in danger…or already dead.
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Disjointed and anticlimactic
- By Chykcha on 10-15-24
By: Janice Hallett
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Hill of Secrets
- A Novel
- By: Galina Vromen
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world’s first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert base with no explanation, have simple orders: Stand by. Make do. Above all, don’t ask questions. Christine, forced to abandon her art restoration business in New York for her husband’s career, struggles to reinvent herself and cope with his increasing aloofness. Gertie, the inquisitive teenage daughter of a German Jewish refugee physicist enlists Christine to help her unravel hidden truths and deal with parents haunted by their past.
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Not historical
- By Cindi Trunk on 10-11-24
By: Galina Vromen
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Pink Glass Houses
- A Novel
- By: Asha Elias
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Saskia Maarleveld, Andi Arndt, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to Sunset Academy, the most coveted elementary school in Miami Beach, where there are three categories of families: rich, wealthy, and ultra-wealthy. Perfectly tanned and smiling Charlotte Giordani is Sunset Academy’s alpha mom. With a sleek blowout and relentless charm, Charlotte’s brashness serves her well. She’s up for election as the PTA president and is riding high, having just secured a massive donation from billionaire Don Walker and his socialite wife Patricia.
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Amazing narration!
- By Jazmine Celeste on 08-04-24
By: Asha Elias
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A Reason to See You Again
- A Novel
- By: Jami Attenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
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Good read
- By Donna M. Blancero on 10-29-24
By: Jami Attenberg
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The Act of Disappearing
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Gower
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Ashley Klanac
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn’t cutting it, and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She’s broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother’s medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who’s now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from a train bridge, clutching what appears to be a baby. And he wants Julia to research the story.
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Powerful Storytelling! Engaging characters!
- By Renee Miller on 06-01-24
By: Nathan Gower
Was easy to listen to
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interesting, relatively clean, and a unique storyline
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I can easily see a sequel to this initial book, even a series with these two women working as a team, as they worked so well together in this first book, with great chemistry between them!!
A good choice!! 👍🏼 ☺️
Surprisingly Good!
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I liked the alternating characters focused on in alternating chapters.
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This was such a good book!
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Friends vs true friends this book is about that
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Narration was really good. Each provided a unique voice and nuances to really convey their character’s story.
Intriguing plus likable characters!
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Loved the different points of view
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Excellent story!
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Characters
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