Books like Secret Mother by Shalini Boland

When a commuter train ride turns into a shocking glimpse of another life, Rachel’s curiosity pulls her deep into a murder mystery that challenges her own sense of reality.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

A husband’s new engagement unexpectedly draws a determined ex‑wife into a web of lies, secrets, and psychological tension that threatens the lives of all involved.

An adventurous tale of Kaya, a young Nez Perce girl, as she tries to escape from her captors who have kidnapped her and her sister.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

After a childhood accident, Erin and Roisin drift apart—until a buried secret haunts them both. When Erin’s father is injured in London, she must confront her past, a disappearing Roisin, and a truth that could destroy her family.

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In the quiet town of Essie’s family life, a new neighbour’s arrival sparks curiosity and tension, unveiling long‑held secrets.

359 pages ; 25 cm

"In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut and focused on the lives of a beautiful mixed-race mother and daughter whose opportunities for fulfillment through love and marriage are threatened by slavery and caste prejudice. The text shares much with popular nineteenth-century women's fiction, while its dominant themes of interracial romance, hidden African ancestry, and ambiguous racial identity have parallels in the writings of both black and white authors from the period." "Begun in the waning months of the Civil War, the novel was near its conclusion when Julia Collins died of tuberculosis in November of 1865. In this first-ever book publication of The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, the editors have composed a hopeful and a tragic ending, reflecting two alternatives Collins almost certainly would have considered for the closing of her novel."--BOOK JACKET

361 pages ; 21 cm