The Woman Before You: An intense, addictive love story with an unexpected twist...

The Woman Before You: An intense, addictive love story with an unexpected twist...
Carrie Blake

You never know what secrets people are hiding.Isabel: Beautiful. Talented. Bored.Mathew: Mysterious. Handsome. Dangerous.For Isabel Archer, dating is a way to pass the time in her otherwise comfortable life. She casts herself as the Perfect Girlfriend for every man she matches with, playing a different girl with a different back-story every night for months. It's innocent – one goodnight kiss before swiftly deleting each profile – until she goes too far.Mathew likes playing games too. Only the games he wants to play are the kind you don’t always walk away from.Dangerous Liaisons meets Maestra in the most shocking thriller you’ll read this year.

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Source ISBN: 9780008279479

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Version: 2018–03–16

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