Pretty Little Secrets: A Pretty Little Liars Collection (Pretty Little Liars, #4.5) by Sara Shepard EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author Name: Sara Shepard
- Book Genre: Chick Lit, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Young Adult
- Series Detail: Book 4.5 in the Pretty Little Liars series
- ISBN # 9780062125910
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- Edition Language: English
- Date of Publication: January 3, 2012
- PDF File Size: 1.5 MB
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Home for the Holidays
It was a blustery Wednesday in early December in Rosewood,
Pennsylvania, a bucolic suburb twenty miles from Philadelphia. While
many residents were cutting down Frasier firs at the local Christmas tree
farm or adorning the outsides of their houses with pinecone wreaths, a
moving van was pulling up to a Georgian house with the word MARIN
stenciled on the mailbox.
Three men disembarked and slid open the back
door to reveal dozens of boxes. Tom Marin, his fiancée, Isabel Randall, and
Isabel’s daughter, Kate, stood in the yard as the movers shuttled their
belongings through the front door. Hanna Marin, who had lived in the house
since she was five, observed from inside the foyer, biting her fingernails.
“Be careful with that,” Isabel screeched to the burly guy who was hefting a
medium-sized box. “It contains my vintage doll collection.”
“And that box goes upstairs,” Kate called nervously to another mover.
“Those are all my handbags.”
Hanna snuck a peek at her soon-to-be stepsister, Kate, who had a slender
body, long, lustrous chestnut-colored hair, and big blue eyes. She was
carrying a Chloé bag Hanna had only seen on the pages of Vogue. When
Hanna asked where Kate had gotten it, Kate had trilled that it was an early
Christmas present, shooting a grateful smile at Hanna’s father. Ick.
“Hanna?” Mr. Marin thrust a small box marked DELICATES at her. “Can
you take this up to your mom’s—er, our—bedroom?”
“Sure,” Hanna mumbled, eager to get away from Isabel and Kate—one of
them was wearing a perfume that kept making her sneeze.
She climbed the stairs, her miniature pinscher, Dot, following at her heels.
Just a few weeks ago, before Thanksgiving, Hanna’s mother, Ashley, had
dropped the bomb that she was taking a job in Singapore—and Hanna
couldn’t come.
Hanna would have loved to start over somewhere else. She’d had a horrible
year. She’d been taunted by an evil text-messager named A. Her old best
friend, Alison DiLaurentis, who’d been missing for three years, had been
found under a concrete slab behind her old house in September.
It turned
out Ian Thomas, Ali’s secret boyfriend—who Hanna and her other best
friends Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, and Emily Fields had all
crushed on when he was a senior and they were seventh graders—had
murdered Ali the night of the girls’ end-of-seventh-grade sleepover. The
police had arrested him a few weeks ago. It had all come as a massive
shock.
But instead she was stuck here, with her father moving in with his new
family—his replacement wife, Isabel, the ex-ER nurse who wasn’t nearly as
pretty or interesting as Hanna’s mom, and his perfect stepdaughter, Kate,
who’d taken Hanna’s place in her dad’s heart and who hated Hanna’s guts.
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