The Lies We Trade
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A high-powered Wall Street career, a beautiful family in a quiet suburban neighborhood—she seems to have everything. Which means she has everything to lose.
Meredith Hansel should be having the best week of her life. After establishing herself as a portfolio manager at a prestigious Wall Street firm, she's in the national spotlight for the innovative funds she created. But as Meredith prepares to celebrate, the plates she's kept spinning for years begin to crash: Her strained marriage reaches a breaking point. Her conscientious teenage daughter acts out under mysterious pressures. Someone vandalizes her home with disturbing graffiti. And Betsey, her most trusted ally at the financial firm, goes rogue, and Meredith is forced to sign a restraining order against her.
Then her worlds collide when she receives a thumb drive and a cryptic note from Betsey threatening to reveal a secret that could have devastating effects on Meredith's family . . . unless she can figure out what Betsey wants and deliver it in time.
As Meredith begins to dig into the data, however, she begins to suspect that it's no coincidence her life is crumbling. That maybe what's happening to her family is connected to what's boiling beneath the surface at her investment company. Soon Meredith realizes there's only one way to avoid taking the fall, and it all hinges on Betsey's true motives. Was she really threatening Meredith or trying to warn her?
• Great for fans of Colleen Coble, Laura Dave, Dani Pettrey, and Lisa Scottoline
• Clean, high-stakes women's domestic suspense with workplace secrets and family drama
• A stand-alone Wall Street thriller
• Includes discussion questions for book clubs
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deceit, blackmail, and fraud stir up trouble for a portfolio manager in Delano's suspenseful debut. Meredith Hansel has just launched two funds that have brought in record-breaking windfalls for her clients. But no sooner has she reached the apex of her career than all the plates she's been spinning start to fall and shatter. Her trusted sales manager, Betsey, slips Meredith a thumb drive with what appears to be proprietary data, gets fired, and then repeatedly trespasses her home and office. Meanwhile, Meredith's marriage is crumbling and her withdrawn, mercurial teen daughter appears to be living a hidden life. When her family's garage and car are defaced, Meredith must trust in God and herself to uncover who's hell-bent on destroying her and why. While financial jargon saps some of the suspense, Delano vividly depicts a cutthroat financial industry where greed and out-of-check egos fuel mistrust and misdeeds, and she slowly raises the stakes as danger closes in on Meredith from all sides. It adds up to a tense, gripping thrill ride from a promising new author.
