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"item_description" : "A USA TODAY BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a sexy new thriller (New York Post) about a successful Hollywood producer who is kidnapped by the man who once knew her best--and the devastating secret that could destroy them both. Faye Heron has an enviable life. Her work on an acclaimed television show built professional bridges and burned personal ones. Now, she's one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Beautiful, rich, and successful, Faye has spent years believing her version of the past and using it as material for her writing. Then, her former film professor passes away, and the funeral brings her back to her college campus and face to face with the man she she barely escaped. Henry Spalding was Faye's first love, whose presence still looms large in her mind. Their connection was obsessive, intoxicating, impossible to replicate. Because Henry is one of a kind. The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended. The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink. The kind who drugs and kidnaps her. When Faye wakes up bound and imprisoned in Henry's isolated mountain cabin, she's forced to confront a terrifying possibility: this may not be about revenge. As the days pass, Faye begins to chip away at the truth. What was the real cause of her professor's death? And could it have something to do with why Henry has brought her here? Most jarring of all--what really happened all those years ago with Henry? Is it possible her version of the past cannot be trusted? With every revelation, the walls close in. As Faye and Henry are pulled back into the toxic, magnetic bond that nearly destroyed them once before, a sprawling, years-old mystery begins to take shape, rewriting history as Faye remembers it and building to a shocking and mind-bending (SheReads) final page.",
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A USA TODAY BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a "sexy new thriller" (New York Post) about a successful Hollywood producer who is kidnapped by the man who once knew her best--and the devastating secret that could destroy them both. Faye Heron has an enviable life. Her work on an acclaimed television show built professional bridges and burned personal ones. Now, she's one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Beautiful, rich, and successful, Faye has spent years believing her version of the past and using it as material for her writing. Then, her former film professor passes away, and the funeral brings her back to her college campus and face to face with the man she she barely escaped. Henry Spalding was Faye's first love, whose presence still looms large in her mind. Their connection was obsessive, intoxicating, impossible to replicate. Because Henry is one of a kind. The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended. The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink. The kind who drugs and kidnaps her. When Faye wakes up bound and imprisoned in Henry's isolated mountain cabin, she's forced to confront a terrifying possibility: this may not be about revenge. As the days pass, Faye begins to chip away at the truth. What was the real cause of her professor's death? And could it have something to do with why Henry has brought her here? Most jarring of all--what really happened all those years ago with Henry? Is it possible her version of the past cannot be trusted? With every revelation, the walls close in. As Faye and Henry are pulled back into the toxic, magnetic bond that nearly destroyed them once before, a sprawling, years-old mystery begins to take shape, rewriting history as Faye remembers it and building to a "shocking and mind-bending" (SheReads) final page.
What makes a toxic-relationship story so irresistible? Just as the characters can’t seem to stay away from each other despite knowing it’s a Very Bad Idea, we can’t stop turning the pages to see what happens next, even if we suspect that finding out will be both electrifying and aggravating—perhaps even disturbing.
Readers in search of books that spin toxic traits into sexy entertainment gold will relish Jessica Knoll’s edgy, darkly romantic thriller, Helpless. After 12 years away, Faye Heron, a multihyphenate Hollywood powerhouse with an equally successful producing-partner husband, returns to her upstate New York alma mater for the funeral of her favorite film professor and mentor Patrick Toner, aka PT.
There, she reunites with PT’s nephews, her friend Campbell and her ex-boyfriend Henry. Faye hasn’t spoken with Henry since their difficult breakup, which she transformed into an Emmy-winning TV episode. She worries he’ll be angry with her, even as her desire for him is inexorably rekindled; she feels “like we are images on one of those infrared cameras, everyone else in blue, us in red. The only two in the room burning with the truth about who I really am.”
Henry, mightily displeased with “the episode,” drugs and kidnaps Faye, hiding her in a remote cabin in the Adirondacks. But is that the only reason he’s locked her away, or is there more to the story? As the two warily circle each other, they fall back into old patterns replete with intense sex, dominance and submission, and sometimes-violent struggles for control. When blackmail and murder come into play, Faye wonders if she’ll make it out of the ordeal alive. “Even if I get out of here and explain I’ve been drugged, kidnapped, starved, forced to wash my hair with Pert Plus, I will be ruined,” she thinks.
Knoll tackles class conflict, taboo desires and long-held secrets rising to the surface—plus a wealth of shocking twists—with skill and aplomb. Helpless is sure to delight fans of Knoll’s previous books, as well as Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Sequel, Colleen Hoover’s Verity and Emerald Fennell’s film version of Wuthering Heights.
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