Before I Let You In

by Jenny Blackhurst

Genres: General Fiction; Thrillers

Synopsis

If you love B A Paris' Behind Closed Doors and Linda Green's While My Eyes Were Closed, you will love Before I let You In, the brand-new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the number one best-selling Kindle author of How I Lost You, which Clare Mackintosh called 'utterly gripping'.

If you don't know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in?

Karen is meant to be the one who fixes problems. It's her job as a psychiatrist — and it's always been her role as a friend. But Jessica is different. She should be the patient, the one Karen helps. But she knows things about Karen. Her friends, her personal life. Things no patient should know. And Karen is starting to wonder if she should have let her in.

Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

Print pages: 352

Sample

Before I Let You In

-1-

NOW

Where would you like to start?

Hmm.

Is something funny?

That’s what I always used to say to my patients. It gives them a sense of control over the session. Except we both know I’m not in control here, don’t we?

Is it important for you to believe that?

I know what you’re trying to do. You’re trying to put me at ease so I open up and confess my darkest fears and then you can tell them I’m crazy. I feel crazy. You can write that down.

Why don’t you start at the beginning, Karen? When you first met Jessica Hamilton.

That’s not the beginning. It’s where all this started, I suppose, but it’s not really the beginning. It started way before all that, before I met Bea and Eleanor, Michael. It started with what happened when I was four years old.

Would you like to talk about that? What happened to you when you were a child?

No. I don’t want to talk about that, and they don’t want to hear about it. They want to know about how she died.

Go on.

You can’t fix me.

Pardon?

Those were some of the first words Jessica Hamilton ever said to me, the words I still hear on a loop in my mind. I remember thinking she was wrong, I fixed people all the time; it was my job. What I didn’t realize then was that she never wanted to be fixed in the first place; that was never her intention. I didn’t know it yet, but she was there to fix me.