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An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks

An Anonymous Girl

A Novel

by Greer Hendricks

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  • Jan 2019, 384 pages
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Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality.

But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields's experiments blurs.

Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking… and what she's hiding.

Jessica's behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated.

Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.

From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl will keep you riveted through the last shocking twist.

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"Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists...major league suspense." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Masterfully escalates the suspense...keep[s] the reader guessing until the end. A great follow-up." ―Booklist (starred review)

"For those who relished the creepy stalking in Hendricks and Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us, this unnerving tale will have them rethinking what secrets are safe to share and if moral and ethics really matter when protecting the ones you love." ―Library Journal (starred review)

"Psychological suspense is a genre that needs to be handled with kid gloves...Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen seem to have mastered the formula...a creepy-crawly tale." ―New York Times Book Review

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Greer Hendricks

Greer Hendricks is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Wife Between Us, An Anonymous Girl, You Are Not Alone and The Golden Couple. Prior to becoming a novelist, she obtained her master's degree in journalism at Columbia and spent two decades as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Allure, Publishers Weekly and other publications. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

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