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Following a whirlwind romance with an old acquaintance she bumped into at a high-school reunion, pregnant Dena Russell has moved back to her small hometown to start a new life with horse breeder Brian Riley. But something isn’t right. As Brian’s behavior grows increasingly disturbing, Dena flees her new home, finding refuge with an old school friend. Then the bloodstained, battered body is found, and Dena is forced to think the unthinkable: Could the father of her unborn child be a coldblooded killer? And, if so, how can she and her baby escape his clutches?

Laura's life is almost too good to be true. The children's books she writes are successful, her husband's art gallery is flourishing, and her son is growing up happy in their upscale town by the sea. But this New Year's Eve, all that will end. On that night, Laura Reed's husband is brutally murdered. The police don't have enough evidence to arrest her, yet they think she committed the crime.

One phone call changes everything. Eden’s mom is dead in what looks to be a murder-suicide. She wasn’t perfect, but Eden can’t believe she could be a killer. But if her mom didn’t do it, who did?

Hannah, Adam, and adorable young Sydney Wickes are living under assumed identities in West Philadelphia. Although she's found it hard to adjust to life in the city, at least Hannah and her family are safe and slowly beginning to build new lives for themselves. But all that changes when an unexpected tragedy throws the harsh spotlight of publicity onto the Wickes family, putting them in serious danger.

Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she’ll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the unthinkable happens: Shelby gets a call from a distraught Rob—Chloe is missing, fallen overboard. Everyone says she was drunk and alone, that it must have been a tragic accident. But all Shelby’s maternal instincts tell her that can’t be true.

Fifteen years ago, Blair's best friend Molly was murdered. Fifteen years ago, Adrian Jones went to prison for it. Fifteen years ago, the real killer got away with it. And now, Blair's terminally ill sister has made a devastating deathbed confession, which could prove that the wrong man has been imprisoned for years - and that Molly's killer is still out there. Blair's determined to find him, but the story behind Molly's death is more twisted than she could imagine. If she isn't careful enough, the killer will ensnare her and bury Blair with his secret.

Meet Maddy Blake: devoted wife and mom who always stands by her husband, who's just trying to get her life back together. But now all her hard work is about to be destroyed. A teenage babysitter and the baby boy she's looking after are abducted. Her naked body is discovered in the woods. The little boy is still missing. Witnesses put Maddy's husband, Doug, at the scene of the crime. She stood by him when he was accused of the ultimate betrayal, but can she trust him now?

Claire has it all: a handsome chef husband, a happy life on the coast, and a beautiful baby boy. But her picture-perfect life isn’t what it seems. Days after the christening, her husband and baby are murdered. Then she confesses to the gruesome crime. But why? And did she really do it? The evidence against her is damning. The police are convinced they have their killer. But her best friend, Morgan, doesn’t think she did it. But how well does she really know Claire? Soon she's putting her life at risk to find out

One morning Caitlin Eckhart receives a phone call that changes her life forever - her much-loved six-year-old stepson, Geordie, has disappeared from school. It soon becomes clear that someone must have deliberately taken him. Distraught, Caitlin and her husband, Noah, make an anguished public appeal for his return. But Caitlin has a secret from her past that is about to catch up with her, and as Geordie's continued absence brings her relationship with Noah to breaking point, she stands to lose everything that she loves.

Having recently lost both her parents in a tragic car accident, Alex Woods is shocked to discover through the family lawyer that her beloved mother was keeping a secret: a baby she gave up for adoption when she had just left high school. Fresh out of graduate school and back in the suburbs of Boston where she grew up, Alex is already overwhelmed trying to figure out what to do with the family home and finding a job. But when, at last, she decides to search for her long-lost sister - and finds her - Alex is in for a terrible surprise....

Sweethearts since high school, Karen and Greg Newhall have lived in Bayland, Massachusetts, all their lives. They trust each other. They know their neighbors. Bayland had been the perfect place to raise their adopted daughter, Jenny. Then a young girl is found dead in the nearby woods, and everything changes.

Beth has the perfect life. She's the one who escaped her bleak hometown, and now she's got a successful business, a devoted boyfriend, and her dream home. Then one phone call changes everything. Her father is dead, and Beth must go home to Maine to take care of the fourteen-year-old little sister she hasn't seen in eight years. Her little sister is dating a dangerous man. He's too old for her, obsessive, controlling. And he'll do anything to keep Beth's little sister to himself.

Tess a 9 ans lorsque sa sœur aînée Phoebe est enlevée, violée et étranglée. Sur son témoignage, le coupable est immédiatement jugé, puis exécuté. Vingt ans plus tard, un test révèle que son ADN n'est pas celui retrouvé sur Phoebe. Traumatisée à l'idée d'avoir pu faire condamner un innocent, Tess décide de faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Au risque de revivre le cauchemar qui a bouleversé sa vie.