HER SECRET SON by Hannah Mary McKinnon

"Her death opens up a Pandora's Box..."

Her Secret Son

Posted: June 20, 2019

Who knew that a desire to adopt a seven-year-old boy as a formality could result in a house of cards falling down? Joshua Anderson has long been in love with his girlfriend of seven years, Grace and her son Logan. But after Grace's accidental death, Joshua decides to formally adopt her son as his own. But upon embarking on that path, Joshua begins to discover how little he knows about his former girlfriend; and that Grace kept has kept tons of secrets from him about herself and Logan. Will Josh and Logan come out unscathed, or will the secrets prove too much for their relationship?

I had read and enjoyed Hannah Mary McKinnon's previous novelTHE NEIGHBORS, and was looking forward to reading HER SECRET SON. My expectations were average, but little did I know that I would be unable to put down the book because I wanted to know what will happen next!

If readers are expecting this to be just another domestic suspense tale, then they're in for a wonderful surprise. This novel doesn't disappoint in any shape or form, and Hannah Mary McKinnon is a genius in guiding readers through this roller coaster of emotions as we watch Joshua's life begin to unravel thread by thread. One can't help but wonder how it will all be finished. HER SECRET SON will shock, flabergast, and hook readers into reading frantically way past their planned stopping point.

For an addictive, wonderful, and unpredictable read that will keep you up past your bedtime, HER SECRET SON by Hannah Mary McKinnon will be a delightful addition to the to be read list.

Book Summary

How far would you go to protect the ones you love…when they may not be yours to protect?

When Josh’s longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief—and full custody of her seven-year-old son, Logan. While not his biological father, Josh has been a dad to Logan in every way that counts, and with Grace gone, Logan needs him more than ever.

Wanting to do right by Logan, Josh begins the process of becoming his legal guardian—something that seems suddenly urgent, though Grace always brushed it off as an unnecessary formality. But now, as Josh struggles to find the paperwork associated with Logan’s birth, he begins to wonder whether there were more troubling reasons for Grace’s reluctance to make their family official.

As he digs deeper into the past of the woman he loved, Josh soon finds that there are many dark secrets to uncover, and that the truth about where Logan came from is much more sinister than he could have imagined…

Tightly paced and brimming with tension, Her Secret Son is a heartbreakingly honest portrait of a family on the edge of disaster and a father desperate to hold on to the boy who changed his life.