His goal is to keep Grace around until Millie ages out of her school, in a short number of months. Early in the marriage, she tried to escape, but Jack made her life smaller and smaller. At home, he keeps Grace locked in a small room and only periodically feeds her.

While maintaining a persona as a brilliant and kind lawyer, Jack makes his marriage to Grace seem perfect by forcing her to appear doting and lovely in public with his friends. Because their parents have no interest in them, Grace and Millie are easy to lose in the world. As an adult, he has searched for a woman he can lock away and torture in a similar way he has decided that with Down’s Syndrome, Grace’s sister Millie is a perfect choice. Together, father and child tortured her and when Jack was a teenager, he murdered her and blamed it on his father. Soon after their wedding Grace finds that Jack is a psychopath.Īs a child, Jack lived with a cruel father who kept his wife, Jack’s mother, locked in the cellar. In the beginning he charmed her with his good looks and devotion to defending battered women, but mostly because if his devotion to her sister Millie, who has Down’s Syndrome. Grace Angel finds herself married to handsome lawyer, Jack. The book is all told from a first-person point-of-view and alternates the present day marriage between Jack and Grace Angel with the past, including the months leading up to the marriage. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors, the reader is treated to a well-structured plot depicting a marriage that looks perfect on the outside but is actually hiding many secrets.

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