A Slow Ruin

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An INSTANT BESTSELLER and BOOK CLUB PICK!</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Library Journal</em> NCIAP Book of the Year</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Felicity marries into the wealthy Portman family she quickly learns to navigate its tangled dynamics-an overbearing mother-in-law a troubled brother-in-law and his effortlessly glamorous wife Marin who becomes an instant friend.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But everything changes the day Felicity's daughter </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>vanishes without a trace. </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And Marin was the last one to see her alive.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the search turns desperate cracks begin to show in Marin's carefully constructed facade. Her past doesn't add up. Her charm feels like a performance. And when a disturbing journal resurfaces months later Felicity begins to uncover a chilling pattern-one that reaches back over a century through generations of secrets the Portman family will do anything to protect.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The deeper Felicity digs the more she begins to question everything: her marriage her sanity and the terrifying possibility that</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> she trusted the wrong person</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> from the very beginning.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The truth will come at a cost.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And not everyone will survive it.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It kept me on my toes the whole time I was reading it and trying to guess the twisty ending of what really happened. Fans of thrillers suspense and mystery novels will not be disappointed with this book. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>San Francisco Book Review</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You are not prepared for the twists...Pamela Crane has in store for you. Sure to have you at the edge of your seat. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>POPSUGAR</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Crane succeeds at painting families and friendships in vivid detail; women will see their tussles and triumphs in these pages and will relish the twists and moments of brave camaraderie and bold revenge. - </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Booklist</em></p>