The Secret She Kept

Name: The Secret She Kept
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
ISBN: 9781470337155

Author: ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Narrator: Patricia R. Floyd

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2013

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Family Life

Synopsis

National bestseller ReShonda Tate Billingsley spins an irresistible story of romance and faith that will touch every reader's heart. Her novel Say Amen, Again won the NAACP Image Award, proving that ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s storytelling “scores a direct hit” (Publishers Weekly), delighting and inspiring with powerful, soul-searching situations and unforgettable characters. How far will you go to save someone you love and trust when they’ve kept a dangerous secret for years? That’s the question facing Lance Kingston, a successful Houston magazine executive whose recent marriage to beautiful, high-powered attorney Tia Jiles seemed to promise a bright future for both of them. But under the surface, a fierce and frightening storm was brewing. That’s because Tia never revealed to Lance what she and her family have known since Tia was seventeen—she has an illness that takes over her mind, transforming her into a raging, violent woman hell-bent on destruction. Bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia. Or crazy, as Lance’s grandmother continually reminds him. “Crazy leaves clues,” she told him point-blank, and perhaps Lance should have listened. Tia’s mother tries to pray the problem away … and Tia’s doctors can’t help her if she won’t do what they advise. Now there’s more than their marriage and Tia’s survival at stake: Tia is pregnant, and Lance will stop at nothing to keep his troubled wife and unborn daughter safe. But at what price?

About Reshonda Tate Billingsley

ReShonda Tate Billingsley's #1 nationally bestselling novels include Let the Church Say Amen, I Know I've Been Changed, and Say Amen, Again, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her collaboration with Victoria Christopher Murray has produced four hit novels, Sinners & Saints, Friends & Foes, A Blessing and a Curse, and Fortune & Fame. BET released a movie in 2013 based on ReShonda's book Let the Church Say Amen in which she had a minor role. She also had a role in the made-for-TV movie The Secret She Kept based on her book of the same title.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tisha on July 07, 2012

Really just three and a half. Based on what I know of working with individuals living with bi-polar disorder, Tia's episodes seem a little too far fiction. I think an additional diagnosis would have given the story more truth. At any rate, it was good to see mental illness addressed in our community......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on June 10, 2022

I read this book a year ago. But I decided to read it again because the adaptation was going to be on television (TV One on Sun, July 10, 2016). I had to make sure that it was an accurate depiction of what I read. I must say that they did an excellent job bringing mental illness to light. The author......more

Goodreads review by Autumn on July 24, 2016

This is a really good book and very different then what Im used to. I love that it brings about the very touchy subject of mental disease and the lengths one family would go to hide it. Very well written and I love the fact that it was available on audible......more

Goodreads review by African Americans on the Move Book Club on September 03, 2012

Tia Jiles clocked the most billable hours at her law firm as a respected, high-powered attorney. She also volunteered for her charitable organization, Pay It Forward, as well as performed pro bono work in her spare time. In short, she was a workaholic, so she didn’t have time to pursue a relationshi......more

Goodreads review by Shameria on March 01, 2017

Ok so at first I was like hmmm do I really ant to read this. Later when I witness Tis's first episode, I knew that this was going to be a good book. Besides the writing of this book being good, this was a great way to talk about a topic that most black families see as taboo. Mental illness, being bl......more