Secrets in Paradise

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Summary: Edge of your seat review
Review: Debbi Gyl, finishing her teaching requirements during the summer session, finds herself at a disadvantage in job hunting, since most schools had already hired their teachers for the fall semester. So when the town of Paradise offers her not just a job, but to pay her expenses to move there and rent her an apartment, she decides not to look a gift horse in the mouth and accepts the job. But as soon as she reports to school for her first day, she is filled with a sense of foreboding. The school resembled a mental hospital more than a school with the windows painted over so that no one could look in or out and the inside was gray concrete block and the students moved quietly through the hallways, with none of the usual laughter and talk you would expect from high school students.When she meets with the principal, she is told that she will teach in the mornings and be the guidance counselor in the afternoon and when she objects is told that it will not be a problem, she will just be advising them on their future careers anyway. And the more she learns about the school, the students and her fellow teachers, the more she becomes convinced that there is something very wrong in Paradise. And then one day, she gets into her car and there is a mysterious man in the backseat who tells her that she must uncover the secret of Paradise and get proof for him to take to the authorities. She says no and tries to leave town, only to find every road out of town blocked for some reason or another and realizes that the only way to leave is to expose the town's secret, but she is totally unprepared for the shocking secret the whole town in covering up and more than willing to kill for. Behm has written a taut, well-written thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to nail-bitting finish.