Keep You Close - Karen Cleveland

A woman must confront her sense of right and wrong when the one person she loves most is accused of an unimaginable crime.

A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don't know this person in front of me, even though he matters more to me than anyone ever has.

Stephanie Maddoxworks her dream job policing power and exposing corruption within the FBI. Getting here has taken her nearly two decades of hard work, laser focus and personal sacrifices-the most significant, she fears, being a closerelationship with her teenage son, Zachary. A single parent, Steph's missed a lot of school events, birthdays and vacations with her boy-but the truth is, she would move heaven and earth forhim, including protecting him from an explosive secret in her past. It just never occurred to her that Zachary would keep secrets of his own.

One day while straightening her son's room, Steph is shaken to discover a gun hidden in hiscloset. A loaded gun. Then comes a knock at her front door-a colleague on the domestic terrorism squad, who utters three devastating words: "It's about Zachary."

So begins a compulsively readable thriller of deception and betrayal, as Steph fights to clear her son's name, only to expose a shadowy conspiracy that threatens to destroy them both-and bring a country to its knees. Packedwith shocking twists and intense family drama, Keep You Close is an electrifying exploration of the consequences of the love that binds-and sometimes blinds-a mother and her child.