{"product_id":"the-secret-thread-isbn-9780593976258","title":"The Secret Thread","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lavish summer party at an English country estate and conflict between social classes lead to deadly consequences that won’t stay buried in this twisty, engrossing suspense novel by the author of\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Hour.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEven the darkest secrets unravel in time . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024:\u003c\/b\u003e Thirty-year-old Jo O’Mara lands a job working for Mimi Mott, a wealthy style icon and legendary founder of a decorating empire. Newly widowed and in her seventies, Mimi is preparing to auction off her possessions and, through them, finally tell the story of her early life. Famously private, until now Mimi has kept her past shrouded in mystery. Jo doesn’t dare reveal how closely it touches her own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTasked with collecting the untold tales behind each auction lot, Jo peels back the layers of Mimi’s origin story and discovers it’s far darker than anyone ever suspected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1969: \u003c\/b\u003eMimi and her sister Pamela live in a cramped, damp staff cottage on the grounds of Rushwood, an idyllic English country estate owned by the Caswell family, their demanding new employer. Working alongside their gardener parents, the girls have been raised with their hands in the soil and know only a traditional, simple life—except spirited Mimi hungers for more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Caswells’ adult children, Nancy and the handsome Lawrence, arrive at Rushwood for the summer, the sisters are drawn into their privileged, intoxicating world, unsettling their own, and passions spark under the blazing sun—until a shattering death at Rushwood’s society party tears Mimi and Pamela apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow time is running out. Jo discovers there’s both a missing auction piece and a missing sister and vows to find them, no matter how dark the secret they expose or the cost to herself.\u003cb\u003eEve Chase\u003c\/b\u003e is a million-copy, internationally bestselling British novelist who writes rich, layered, and suspenseful novels, steeped with secrets, unforgettable characters, and settings. Her previous novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick in the UK; \u003ci\u003eThe Birdcage; The Daughters of Foxcote Manor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e top ten bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick in the UK; \u003ci\u003eThe Wildling Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award; \u003ci\u003eBlack Rabbit Hall,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of Paris's Saint-Maur en Poche prize for Best Foreign Fiction.Internationally bestselling author","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233740959973,"sku":"NP9780593976258","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593976258.jpg?v=1767741432","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-secret-thread-isbn-9780593976258","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}