Ruby falls : a novel

Like The Chilling Psychological Thriller The Silent Patient, Deborah Goodrich Royce's Ruby Falls Is A Nail-biting Tale Of A Fragile Young Actress, The New Husband She Barely Knows, And Her Growing Suspicion That The Secrets He Harbors May Eclipse Her Own. On A Brilliantly Sunny July Day, Six-year-old Ruby Is Abandoned By Her Father In The Suffocating Dark Of A Tennessee Cave. Twenty Years Later, Transformed Into Soap Opera Star Eleanor Russell, She Is Fired Under Dubious Circumstances. Fleeing To Europe, She Marries A Glamorous Stranger Named Orlando Montague And Keeps Her Past Closely Hidden. Together, Eleanor And Orlando Start Afresh In La. Setting Up House In A Storybook Cottage In The Hollywood Hills, Eleanor Is Cast In A Dream Role--the Lead In A Remake Of Rebecca. As She Immerses Herself In That Eerie Gothic Tale, Orlando's Personality Changes, Ghosts Of Her Past Re-emerge, And Eleanor Fears She Is Not The Only Person In Her Marriage With A Secret. In This Thrilling And Twisty Homage To Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, The Story Ricochets Through The Streets Of Los Angeles, A Dangerous Marriage To An Exotic Stranger, And The Mind Of A Young Woman Whose Past May Not Release Her. "On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden. Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role--the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando's personality changes, ghosts of her past re-emerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret. In this thrilling and twisty homage to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, the story ricochets through the streets of Los Angeles, a dangerous marriage to an exotic stranger, and the mind of a young woman whose past may not release her." -- Amazon.com