But as Janie's behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie's past may be enough to push them all over the edge. Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah's attempts to bring them all together. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie's true nature. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own. Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own-and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted. A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.

To hear about her upcoming release The Secrets of Us, visit her on Facebook or sign up for her newsletter at. If Berry isn’t chasing after her son, you can find her running through Los Angeles, prepping for her next marathon. Her work has been optioned for film and translated into multiple languages. She enjoys taking her readers on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche. Now, she spends her days writing full-time where she uses her clinical experience to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction. Lucinda Berry is a former clinical psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma.

The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry