The Receptionist - by Kate Myles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Emily is a top talent agent who rules the land of talk shows and reality TV. Whip-smart and brutally practical, she outmaneuvers all rivals... except in her personal life. Emily willfully ignores her CEO husband Doug's philandering in exchange for their glamorous one-percenter lifestyle, until a surprise pregnancy changes everything. A TED-Talking business guru with a reckless streak, Doug embarks on an audacious relationship with Chloe, the stunning young receptionist at his market research firm. But Chloe has a secret: a volatile past she's desperate to forget. Their chaotic entanglement sets off a chain of shocking scandals, plunging Emily into a scheming fight for survival. As they each try to fight their way to the top, there's only one question: How far will Emily go to protect her child and preserve her carefully curated life?"--Back cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>In this domestic thriller, sex, ambitions, and disaster burn more intensely than the Los Angeles sun.</b></p><p>Emily is a top talent agent who rules the land of talk shows and reality TV. Whip-smart and brutally practical, she outmaneuvers all rivals...except in her personal life. Emily willfully ignores her CEO husband Doug's philandering in exchange for their glamorous one-percenter lifestyle, until a surprise pregnancy changes everything.</p><p>A TED-Talking business guru with a reckless streak, Doug embarks on an audacious relationship with Chloe, the stunning young receptionist at his market research firm. But Chloe has a secret: a volatile past she's desperate to forget. Their chaotic entanglement sets off a chain of shocking scandals, plunging Emily into a scheming fight for survival.</p><p>As they each try to fight their way to the top, there's only one question: How far will Emily go to protect her child and preserve her carefully curated life?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[<i>The Receptionist</i>] has all the fascination of a train wreck...The malicious actions of these angry, narcissistic people are appalling, but that won't stop readers from turning the pages to see what happens to them next." <b>--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b></p><p>"The perfect maelstrom of revenge, crazy, and absolute rage. <i>The Receptionist</i> has it all...[Kate Myles] is definitely one to watch." <b>--<i>Mystery & Suspense Magazine</i></b></p><p>"A fast-paced, gripping tale..." <b>--Authorlink</b></p><p>"This eerie, suspenseful saga keeps readers guessing." <b>--<i>Woman's World</i></b></p><p>"The slick, ruthless world of Hollywood comes alive in Kate Myles's riveting debut." <b>--<i>The Big Thrill</i></b></p><p>"Kate Myles takes no prisoners and leaves no skin on the bone. <i>The Receptionist</i> is a riveting and disturbing evisceration of twenty-first-century Hollywood greed and ambition. Überagents, self-improvement gurus, desperately ambitious actors--none of these denizens of sun-drenched Los Angeles are safe from Kate Myles's scalpel-sharp pen." <b>--Christopher Rice, <i>New York Times</i> and Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Burning Girl series</b></p><p>"A dark, gripping tale that won't fail to captivate." <b>--Robert Bryndza, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b></p><p>"<i>The Receptionist</i> is the best kind of guilty pleasure. Unlikeable characters? Check. Twisty plot? Check. This book has a pervasive sense of dread throughout, which made me turn the pages even faster. I couldn't wait to see how it ended." <b>--Samantha Downing, <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>My Lovely Wife</i> and <i>He Started It</i></b></p><p>"<i>The Receptionist</i> is compulsively readable and deliciously disturbing, perfect for readers who enjoyed Gillian Flynn's <i>Sharp Objects</i>. Myles has written a genuinely unnerving thriller that I couldn't put down." <b>--Jess Lourey, Amazon Charts bestselling author of <i>Unspeakable Things</i> and <i>Bloodline</i></b></p><p>"<i>The Receptionist</i> starts as a scathingly funny, deftly observed comedy of Hollywood manners--then twists, changes gears, and gathers the tense, heart-palpitating momentum of a runaway train." <b>--Jon Evans, Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of <i>Dark Places</i> and <i>Invisible Armies</i></b></p><p>"Kate Myles's <i>The Receptionist</i> is a terrific thriller and a mesmerizing character study; I read it faster and with more pleasure than any crime novel I've picked up in months." <b>--Scott Phillips, bestselling author of <i>The Ice Harvest</i></b></p><p>"<i>The Receptionist</i> is a freight train, hurtling toward a sheer drop. Kate Myles's razor-edged debut offers a bitter satire of LA society (or lack of same), told with the pure, pulse-pounding abandon of a 911 call. Myles's villains are delightfully awful, and her dialogue shines bright and cuts deep, but what makes her a tale spinner on par with the greats, like Patricia Highsmith and Tana French, is her recognition that the most thrilling moment of that fatal train ride comes not from the pounding of the engines or the fiery conflagration of landing but from the moment of weightlessness as you fall." <b>--Nick Seeley, author of <i>Cambodia Noir</i></b></p><br>
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