Her Perfect Twin

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 by Sarah Bonner

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Originally published in 2022 by Hodder Studio, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, in Great Britain

First US edition: September 2022

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bonner, Sarah, author.

Title: Her perfect twin / Sarah Bonner.

Description: First US edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022019440 | ISBN 9781538710012 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781538710029 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Thrillers (Fiction). | Novels.

Classification: LCC PR6102.O565 H47 2022 | DDC 823/.92—dc23/eng/20220422

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022019440

ISBNs: 9781538710012 (trade paperback), 9781538710029 (ebook)

E3-20220709-JV-NF-ORI

To Mum and Dad

For making me believe I could do anything xx

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Part One

Megan

Chapter One

I have no memory of my husband taking this photo. It shows me lying on our bed in my underwear, eyes closed, a private smile on my face. It is definitely our bed, with the padded leather headboard I have to wipe constantly because otherwise it accumulates so much dust you’d think I hadn’t cleaned for a year. The white bedding with the little blue forget-me-nots is the one I bought in the January sales last month and the flowers perfectly match the electric-blue bra and knickers I am wearing.

I do not own electric-blue underwear.

Chris is still in the shower; he’s humming some god-awful soft rock song as he splashes water around the en suite. Keeping an ear out, I dig through the top drawer of the dresser, spilling plain black and flesh-colored knickers to the floor as I hunt for the more risqué items at the back. I find a red lace set that hasn’t seen the light of day in… well, probably a year? I don’t know, it can’t be that long, surely, although it’s been a while. But there is nothing blue. Stuffing things back in, I sense someone behind me and turn to come face to face with my husband, wet from the shower, hair hanging around his face.