I’ve been a huge fan of Hannah Mary McKinnon ever since I read The Neighbors and this book made me love her even more! I had so many emotions going through this book it was insane. The ending left me so speechless I had to contact Hannah to discuss! It left me completely floored!
I really fell in love with the protagonist, I loved how she was flawed and how we got to witness her transformation throughout the book. This book was full of secrets, lies, and twists!
I don’t say this lightly, but this book made me fall back in love with reading! This might be my number 1 book of 2020! A.must.read
Thank you to HARLEQUIN – Trade Publishing for providing me with an electronic ARC of this book via NetGalley. As usual, my reviews are my honest and unbiased opinions.
SISTER DEAR
Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon
ISBN: 9780778309550
Publication Date: May 26, 2020
Publisher: MIRA Books
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Author Bio:
Hannah Mary McKinnon was
born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. After a
successful career in recruitment, she quit the corporate world in favor of
writing, and is now the author of The
Neighbors and Her Secret Son. She
lives in Oakville, Ontario, with her husband and three sons, and is delighted
by her twenty-second commute.
Book Summary:
In Hannah Mary McKinnon’s psychological
thriller, SISTER DEAR (MIRA Trade;
May 26, 2020; $17.99), the obsession of Single
White Female meets the insidiousness of You,
in a twisted fable about the ease
of letting in those who wish us harm, and that mistake’s dire consequences.
The day he dies, Eleanor Hardwicke
discovers her father – the only person who has ever loved her – is not her
father. Instead, her biological father is a wealthy Portland businessman who
wants nothing to do with her and to continue his life as if she doesn’t exist.
That isn’t going to work for Eleanor.
Eleanor decides to settle the score. So,
she befriends his daughter Victoria, her perfect, beautiful, carefree
half-sister who has gotten all of life’s advantages while Eleanor has gotten
none.
As she grows closer to Victoria,
Eleanor’s obsession begins to deepen. Maybe she can have the life she wants,
Victoria’s life, if only she can get close enough.
Excerpt
Chapter 1
The police didn’t
believe me.
A
jury wouldn’t have, either, if I’d gone on trial, and most definitely not the
judge. My attorney had more than a few reservations about my story. Ms.
Allerton hadn’t said as much. She didn’t need to. I saw it in her eyes, could
tell by the way she shuffled and reshuffled her papers, as if doing so might
shake my lies clean off the pages, leaving only the truth behind in her inky,
royal blue swirls.
After
our first meeting I’d concluded she must’ve known early on—before she shook my
hand with her icy fingers—that I was a liar. Before she’d walked into the room
in shiny, four-inch heels, she’d no doubt decided she’d heard my excuses, or a
variation thereof, from countless clients already. I was yet another person
claiming to be innocent. Another criminal who’d remained adamant they’d done
nothing wrong, it wasn’t their fault, honest,
despite the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, a wall of
impending doom surrounding me.
And
still, at the time I’d believed the only reason Ms. Allerton had taken on my
case pro-bono was because of the amount of publicity it gave her firm. Reducing
my sentence—for there would be one—would amplify her legacy as a hot-shot
lawyer. I’d accepted her help. There was no other option. I needed her
knowledge, her expertise, saw her as my final hope. I now know her motivations
were something else I’d miscalculated. All hope extinguished. Game over.
If
I’m being fair, the judgements Ms. Allerton and other people had made about me
weren’t completely wrong. I had told
lies, some, anyway. While that stripped away part of my claim to innocence, it
didn’t mean I was entirely guilty. Not of the things everybody said I’d done.
Things I’d had no choice but to confess to, despite that being my biggest lie
of all.
But
I’ll tell you the truth. The whole truth and nothing but. I’ll start at the
beginning, and share everything that happened. Every last detail leading up to
one fateful night. The night someone died because of me. The night I lost you,
too.
I
won’t expect your forgiveness. Our relationship—or lack thereof—will have gone
way beyond that point. No. All I can hope for, is that my side of the story
will one day help you understand why I did the things I did.
And why I have to do
the things I’ve not yet done.
Excerpted
from Sister Dear by Hannah Mary McKinnon, Copyright ©
2020 by Hannah McKinnon.
Published
by MIRA Books
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