Cocktail Hour
Here’s the set-up:
What if your friend – someone admired, envied, and fervently sought after by everyone who knew her – was really a dangerous sociopath? In her latest novel, Cocktail Hour, women’s fiction author Tara McTiernan answers that question as she takes you on a wild roller coaster ride of thrilling highs and terrifying lows in this gripping novel about friendship gone horribly wrong.
Spring in glamorous uber-rich Fairfield County, Connecticut is a time of beginnings: a new diet for the approaching summer spent out on the yacht, fresh-faced interns being offered up at the office as the seasonal sacrifice to the gods of money, and corporate takeovers galore. Five women in their thirties have a brand-new friendship, too, one that fed and watered regularly at local hotspots over cocktails. With all of their personal struggles – Lucie’s new catering business is foundering due to vicious gossip, Kate’s marriage is troubled due to an inability to conceive, Chelsea’s series of misses in the romance department have led to frantic desperation, and Sharon’s career problems are spinning out of control – the women look forward to a break and a drink and a chance to let their guards down with their friends. And letting their guards down is the last thing they should do in the kind of company they unknowingly keep with the fifth member of their cocktail-clique: Bianca Rossi, a woman who will stop at nothing to have it all.
As each woman’s life is affected by this she-wolf in sheep’s clothing, the truth starts to come out, but will they see it before it’s too late? Or will their doubts about their own perceptions and gut feelings stop them from protecting themselves in time? Exciting, chilling, and emotionally charged, Tara McTiernan delivers a delicious page-turner that will change your view of everyone you think you know.
Editorial Reviews
Review
-Kathleen Long, USA TODAY Bestselling Author”With incredibly realistic characters, witty prose, and a page-turning plot, Cocktail Hour is the first book I’ve read by Tara McTiernan but it certainly won’t be the last…”
-Emily Snow, New York Times bestselling author of Tidal and Devoured“Full of engaging characters you’ll love, and one you’ll love to hate, Tara McTiernan’s new novel Cocktail Hour will keep you on the edge of your seat.”
– Antonietta Mariottini, author of The Queen of Minor Disasters
More About the Author
Biography
Tara McTiernan grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent the summers of her youth on a small island in the Great South Bay on Long Island. Both Fairfield County, Connecticut and Long Island have served as the setting for her novels, Barefoot Girls and Cocktail Hour, as well as her short stories, including the collection, Earth and Air.
A voracious reader known to complete a book in a single sitting as a child, Tara became well known to her hometown’s librarians as she had a terrible addiction to certain books – re-reading them and continually checking them out until her parents had to be called in and limits set to the number of times she was allowed to take out a book. “Other children would like to have a chance to read this book, too,” she was told to her great consternation. To this day, there are certain books Tara will not lend out to others as she has to have them on hand at all times.
Although Tara started writing fiction as a child, finishing her first novel at the age of twenty-four, her work started and stalled for years due to the demands of her career in corporate office management. In spite of this, many of her short stories saw publication in literary magazines. In her early forties, she picked back up where she left off, completing her novel Barefoot Girls which was published in 2012.
Tara’s latest novel, Cocktail Hour, has just been released (March 2013). She lives with her husband, Ash, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Visit the author’s website at www.taramctiernan.com for more information including upcoming book releases and events.
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