Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guests are Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen authors of An Anonymous Girl, published January 8th by St. Martin’s Press.

Greer Hendricks ,before she wrote novels, was an editor at Simon and Schuster. and her writing has appeared in the NYT, Allure and Publishers Weekly.

Sarah Pekkanen has worked for Gannett covering Capital Hill, has written for The Baltimore Sun and has written several novels.

The first collaboration between these two was The Wife Between Us an international bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture by Amblin Entertainment.

And An Anonymous Girl has already been optioned as well, this time for a TV series I believe.

All in all two very busy women and a great novelistic couple.

An Anonymous Girl tells the story of Jessica Farris, a makeup artist who gets herself into big trouble by lying her way into a supposed academic study conducted by Dr. Lydia Shields a complicated villain with a past that leads her to acts that are complicated scenarios with more than a twist of deceit and perversion (if you will). Jessica is a big girl though and the crux of the book is her efforts, notwithstanding Dr. Shield’s and her husbands machinations, to save herself, her family and her integrity (if possible).

With that welcome to both of you and thanks so much for joining us today.