About
Wendy Corsi Staub has published nearly eighty novels, including multiple New York Times bestsellers and is best known for her psychological suspense and suburban noir. Her latest release, THE BLACK WIDOW, completes a trilogy that began with THE GOOD SISTER, one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Reads of 2013, and the USA Today bestseller, THE PERFECT STRANGER.
Wendy is a two-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and five time winner of the WLA Washington Irving Prize for Fiction, she has also been honored with the RWA Rita, the RWA-NYC Golden Apple for Lifetime Achievement and the RT Bookreviews Career Achievement Award in Suspense. Alter-ego Wendy Markham writes bestselling romance and chick lit. Now writing another suspense trilogy for Harper, she lives in New York.
Vital Temptations: A Heart's Betrayal
Description
<p>Dr. Bethany McNeal is living her dream as a pediatric resident in one of the most sought-after medical centers in Seattle. Beautiful and intelligent, she’s missing only one thing—love, which she put on hold to focus on her career after ending a tumultuous relationship. Everything changes when she meets Dr. Brent Anderson, a charming and handsome fellow resident. Despite her reservations, Bethany falls for Brent—hard. When she learns Brent is married several months into their relationship, she immediately breaks it off. After graduating residency and going their separate ways, Bethany tries to move on with another man—real estate broker and personal trainer Charles Blakely. But just when things get serious with Charles, she realizes she’s still in love with Brent, and she finds herself caught between the two men, facing a series of difficult decisions and harrowing events that will change her life forever. Will she be able to recover from the vital temptations that turned her perfect life upside down?</p>
Story Behind The Book
THE BLACK WIDOW explores the predatory dangers of social media relative to the world of online romantic relationships and dating.
Reviews
<p>"Staub is at the top of her writing game with <em>The Black Widow</em>. Even suspense readers will find themselves fully engaged by the wonderfully twisted plot as Staub successfully flirts with some of the established tropes of the suspense genre only to later surprise readers by turning these same classic plot devices on their head. <em>The Black Widow</em> is superior, spine-tingling suspense that fans of Mary Higgins Clark’s early novels will eat up with a spoon."<br />
-- <strong>John Charles for <em><a href="http://readertoreader.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=this_review&pageID=1&ID=12153&mode=0&letter=0&Keywords=0&manu=0&prodGroup=0&item_ASIN=0&author=0&startPage=1&type=0">Reader to Reader</a></em></strong></p>
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<p>“A fantastic thriller that will have you trapped in its pages; Staub has made sure that it is virtually impossible to set this one aside and come back to it.”<br />
-- <em><a href="http://www.suspensemagazine.com/"><strong>Suspense Magazine</strong></a></em></p>
