But ups-and-downs in her career, plus an unexpected pregnancy, make Tia even more unstable. With in-laws who do more harm than good and stubborn resistance from Tia, Lance urges his wife to seek medical attention. After a whirlwind courtship, Lance ignores his family’s warnings and marries Tia-but after the wedding, her manic behavior clues Lance in to a serious secret she’s been hiding. Magazine editor Lance Kingston thinks he’s found the perfect woman in Tia Jiles-a beautiful and philanthropic lawyer on her way to making partner. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for The Secret She Kept includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. 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. and Tia’s doctors can’t help her if she won’t do what they advise. Tia’s mother tries to pray the problem away. “Crazy leaves clues,” she told him point-blank, and perhaps Lance should have listened. Or crazy, as Lance’s grandmother continually reminds him. 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. But under the surface, a fierce and frightening storm was brewing. 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.
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.
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