Hold Me Like a Secret | wlw thriller

Grace Keller built her life on control; it was the only thing keeping everything from falling apart.

That is, until Julie Monroe crashed into it like she had no intention of leaving.

Loud, impulsive and stubbornly kind, Julie takes no hints and doesn't know when to stop - the kind of person who leaves notes for strangers and brings home things no one else wants.

Grace hates everything about her - the way she blasts music in public, the way she inserts herself where she doesn't belong and somehow makes it feel like she does, the way she tells the truth when she really shouldn't. The way her chaos makes Grace's carefully tailored mask crumble and expose the parts of her no one was meant to see.

Most of all, she hates how quickly she started needing her.

But some secrets aren't meant to be shared.

Someone is watching. Someone who knows exactly how far Grace will go to survive - and won't hesitate to push her further.

For the first time, though, surviving doesn't feel like enough.

Now she's forced to choose: she can keep her secrets; or she can keep Julie.

She doesn't get both.

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Estimated word count: 80k-100k