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Jennifer Jill Araya
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Jordan Cobb
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Victoria Villarreal
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Allyson Johnson
About this listen
Three betrayed women with revenge in common channel their fury in a twisting novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and False Step.
A women’s boxing class is the perfect place for betrayed wife Katherine to work out her aggressions. Ideal too for Geneva, a teacher disgraced and ruined by a vengeful ex, and Luz, a software engineer battling an unjust system. Maggie, their instructor and mentor, guarantees she can right the wrongs they’ve endured. And if Katherine, Geneva, and Luz really want to unleash their rage, they must do what Maggie says.
Each woman’s secret task has its risks. Call it justice. Call it revenge. It’s bound to be worth it—if no missteps are made. As they take the leap to reclaim what they’re owed, their lives are turned upside down. Because no one could have guessed that it would all end in murder.
Now, coming together to harness their power, Katherine, Geneva, and Luz fear that the game they’ve been playing is playing them.
©2023 Victoria Helen Stone (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“Stone gradually reveals her multifaceted characters’ secrets as the intricate, fast-paced plot builds to a surprising conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly
“This beautifully balanced thriller will keep readers tense, surprised, pleased, and surprised again as a master manipulator unfolds her plan of revenge.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Stone skillfully, deviously, and gleefully leads the reader down a garden path to a knockout WHAM-O of an ending.”—New York Journal of Books
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When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives off the grid with a group of women in a community called Halcyon. Rhiannon invites Lenna, a new mother herself, to join them. Why suffer the sleepless nights by yourself? It takes a village, after all. Lenna decides to go and hopefully repair her relationship with Rhiannon, but as she drives into the desert and her cell service gets weaker, she becomes suspicious.
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The ending!
- By Kathrene L. Beasley on 03-11-25
By: Sara Shepard
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Don't Forget Me
- A Thriller
- By: Rea Frey
- Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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All Ruby wanted was a fresh start. But after an early retirement and a relocation to a tight-knit community with her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Lily, her new beginning takes a turn. First her troubled daughter and then her husband disappear without a trace. Unsure how to cope, grief-ridden Ruby turns to her neighborhood friends to find a way forward with new hobbies, including a murder club where they try to solve cold cases. But just as unexpectedly as her family vanished, a body floats to the surface of the nearby lake.
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I Will Forget This Book
- By JoJo on 04-05-24
By: Rea Frey
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After Image
- By: Jaime deBlanc
- Narrated by: Vivia Font
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Four years ago, beautiful yet troubled Allie Andersen vanished without a trace. The twenty-one-year-old daughter of an acclaimed actress, her disappearance captivated the media, left her family distraught, and became a fixation for online theorists, who implicated everybody Allie knew and loved. Everyone, including her devoted stepsister, Natasha. Now, Natasha is finally trying to move on.
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Deftly written, suspenseful
- By Scott McAfee on 03-14-25
By: Jaime deBlanc
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Message Deleted
- By: K. L. Slater
- Narrated by: Annabel Scholey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange. This message was deleted. Leona answers the door, and insists everything's fine. She doesn't know anything about the message. Six hours later, Saffy gets a knock on the door. It's the police. They’ve found a body. And Saffy was the last one to see them alive.
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It’s Slater! I was so excited!
- By Karenique on 12-22-24
By: K. L. Slater
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Don't Believe Her
- By: Nicola Sanders
- Narrated by: Jodie Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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My life has never been better. I have a beautiful little girl, and I am engaged to be married to the man I’ve had a crush on since I can remember. So when Nick, my handsome fiancé, announces that his sister Carla is finally coming home, it’s truly the icing on the cake. That was twelve years ago, and no one has seen her since. Everyone is ecstatic about Carla’s return. But as I spend more time with her, I can't shake the feeling that something isn't right. Her behavior is a little off, her childhood memories don't align with mine, and she's oddly evasive about her lost years.
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Unexpected plot twist
- By Anonymous User on 11-07-24
By: Nicola Sanders
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Close Your Eyes
- By: Teresa Driscoll
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When private investigator Matthew Hill picks up the call from his wife, Sally, his world comes crashing down. Their eight-year-old daughter, Amelie, is missing. One second, she was there, the next, she was gone. It’s the very nightmare they’ve been dreading. Long ago, Matthew left the force after a woman blamed him for her son’s death, promising that he too would one day feel her pain. It’s a threat that’s hung over his family ever since, and now it’s Amelie’s picture on the news.
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A bridge too far on character behavior
- By Ken Lewis on 01-26-25
By: Teresa Driscoll
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Retreat
- A Novel
- By: Krysten Ritter
- Narrated by: Krysten Ritter
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Liz Dawson weaves through a crowd with the ease of a tropical breeze; she’s clever, smooth, and confident—qualities that make her a brilliant serial con artist. Isabelle Beresford is strikingly beautiful, obscenely wealthy, and the new owner of Casa Esmerelda, a fabulous villa on the Mexican coast—attributes that make her the perfect mark. When she offers Liz a job handling the installation of a piece of art in her otherwise vacant home, Liz can’t resist the allure of a beach retreat. But when Liz is mistaken for Isabelle herself, Liz can’t help slipping into the socialite’s identity.
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Well worth your time and money
- By Kim W. on 04-20-25
By: Krysten Ritter
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The Perfect Guest
- By: Ruth Irons
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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We all have that friend—the one who doesn't quite belong. Dinah Marshall is that person and knows it. After someone drops out, she's invited to spend the weekend at a luxury holiday home with women she's known since university. However, the gulf between them has widened since then, and Dinah is conscious of being the only one with no money, career, partner or children. Feeling like an outsider, she takes to snooping around the house.
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All over the place
- By Meg R on 01-11-25
By: Ruth Irons
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Count My Lies
- By: Sophie Stava
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Devon Sorvari, Emily Tremaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot. With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.
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It’s boring
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-25
By: Sophie Stava
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That's Not My Name
- By: Megan Lally
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Robb Moreira
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.
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This audiobook broke me
- By Katherine Galvez on 02-21-24
By: Megan Lally
Interesting
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another great story!
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Great Book!
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I recommend it!
Great cast of narrators too.
Good book!
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Enjoyable read!
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A bit strange.
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I'm partial to.character driven stories, and in many ways this book was exactly that, though I did find it to be more plot driven than her other works. And I have to say that I never did feel like I knew these women characters very well, not any of them. The men seemed a bit caricatured, but that was forgivable as it added to the story and plot, and even provided some comic relief.
Narration was good, but I held that standard very high because I love how VHS writes! She is one of my absolute favorite authors, since "Jane Doe". I eagerly await her next book, even before I finished this one. I'm hoping I don't have to wait long.
Excellent prose
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Estuvo bien
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No one does revenge quite like VHS so I was really excited for this and it didn't disappoint! Like other reviewers, I don't like a lot of politics in my fiction but she toes the line really well and usually adds things in for a reason as opposed to random political word vomit so I enjoy it as a moderate.
The narration was fantastic!
Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend.
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Thrills and Chills Abound in 'The Hook
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