Until You're Mine: A Novel
You're alone. You're vulnerable. And you have something that someone else wants. At any cost. Claudia Morgan-Brown finally has everything she wants. Pregnant with a much-wanted first baby of her own, she has a happily established family of two small step-sons and a loving husband with a great...
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You're alone. You're vulnerable. And you have something that someone else wants. At any cost. Claudia Morgan-Brown finally has everything she wants. Pregnant with a much-wanted first baby of her own, she has a happily established family of two small step-sons and a loving husband with a great career. But she is also committed to her full-time job as a social worker, and her husband travels often. So when Claudia hires Zoe to help her around the house in anticipation of the baby’s arrival, it seems like the answer to her prayers. But despite Zoe's glowing recommendations and instant rapport with the children, there's something about her that Claudia just cannot trust.Meanwhile, there has been a series of vicious attacks on pregnant women in the area, and Claudia becomes acutely aware of how vulnerable she may be. With her husband out of town for work and her family far away, who will protect her? What is it exactly that Zoe wants? Realizing appearances can be deceiving even in her seemingly idyllic world, as Claudia digs deeper into Zoe’s past, she begins to wonder – how far would someone go to have a child of her own?Riveting from its very first pages, UNTIL YOU'RE MINE is a masterwork of psychological suspense. Readers of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP and TURN OF MIND will be enthralled by this multilayered novel, featuring a twisted plot that ends in a breathtaking and shocking finale.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780804136891 (0804136890)
ASIN: 804136890
Publish date: April 15th 2014
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
StronglyPsychological thriller/mystery. Until You’re Mine will keep you thinking, predicting and in suspense right up to the very end of the book.Claudia is the first character who has the perfect life. She has a fulfilling job as a social worker, she's happily married to James, a handsome and wealt...
This isn't my usual type of read, I like happy romance-y books, but every so often I like to read something different. This was a lot darker than the description on the back made out: Claudia is heavily pregnant with a much-wanted baby, she has a loving husband and a beautiful home.And then Zoe ...
Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes centers on three women – Claudia expecting to bring her first baby home soon, her nanny Zoe with secrets of her own, and police detective Lorraine investigating brutal murders. The main premise of a woman's need to be a mother and the extreme measures she will tak...
This is my first time reading Samantha Hayes and I have to say that I really did enjoy "Until You're Mine." This book had a surprising ending though parts of the book did drag in places.This novel is told in three perspectives. The first perspective we have is Claudia. Claudia is a stepmother to twi...
4.5 starsThis could have easily been a 5 star read for me. By 30% I was close to just giving it 5 stars because it's that intense. The only reasons why this did not get a full 5 from me is because the confusing POVs and the whole undercover crap was just thrown in at the end. Each chapter is a diffe...