"What secrets do your neighbors keep from you?"

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

Genres: Suspense Psychological | Women's Fiction

Posted: September 27, 2018

The year of 1992 was quite an eventful one for Abby: first is the death of her beloved younger brother Tom; followed by meeting her husband Nate at a crash site. Years later, just as Abby and Nate have settled quietly into suburbs with a teenage daughter, another family moves in; a man, woman, and a teenage son. The man, however, happens to be Abby's true love: Liam. As the neighbors begin to interact with one another, and attraction between Liam and Abby becomes rekindled, secrets, old and new are uncovered and the story quickly hurls towards an explosive conclusion.

Very often when it comes to domestic suspense, the threat is often of the past in the form of a person, or else the threat is the person and what they dare to hold over another character in terms of life and death. In THE NEIGHBORS by Hannah Mary McKinnon, the threat comes more from memories and the power they hold over Abby, Nate and Liam, as well as what secrets will come out. In other words, there are no literal life and death secrets.

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Having said that, I often wished to see more interactions between the neighbors so more can be added to the story, and would have wanted for Liam's wife to have a bigger role in THE NEIGHBORS

If you are seeking a story that is similar to the current trend of domestic suspense novels, as well as a story that explores the forbidden paths and where secrets can turn from innocent to deadly, then THE NEIGHBORS

Book Summary

Abby looks forward to meeting the family who just moved in across the street—until she realizes they’re the one couple who could expose her deepest secrets

After a night of fun back in 1992, Abby is responsible for a car crash that kills her beloved brother. It’s a mistake she can never forgive, so she pushes away Liam, the man she loves most, knowing that he would eventually hate her for what she’s done, the same way she hates herself.

Twenty years later, Abby’s husband, Nate, is also living with a deep sense of guilt. He was the driver who first came upon the scene of Abby’s accident, the man who pulled her to safety before the car erupted in flames—the man who could not save her brother in time. It’s this guilt, this regret, that binds them together. They understand each other. Or so Nate believes.

In a strange twist of fate, Liam moves into the neighborhood with his own family, releasing a flood of memories that Abby has been trying to keep buried all these years. Abby and Liam, in a complicit agreement, pretend never to have met, yet cannot resist the pull of the past—nor the repercussions of the terrible secrets they’ve both been carrying…

The Neighbors by Hannah Mary McKinnon

The Neighbors

by: Hannah Mary McKinnon

MIRA
March 1, 2018
On Sale: March 13, 2018
Featuring:
384 pages
ISBN: 0778311007
EAN: 9780778311003
Kindle: B071NKWTXZ
Trade Size / e-Book

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