I had heard such amazing things about this book I knew I had to read it! This book exceeded my expectations!!! It was a wild crazy ride from page one to the very last page! Morgan is standing on a train platform when a stranger comes up and hands her a baby and jumps in front of train. Morgan has no idea why this woman handed her the baby and wants her to raise her! The police don't understand either and think Morgan may have pushed the woman and took her baby! As the mystery continues more and more secrets are exposed! I really loved this book and all the twists and turns! I received an advanced readers copy and all opinions are my own.

Woman on the edge is a book from new author Samantha Bailey. The book grabs you from page one, and doesn’t let you go! Told from two different woman, One is struggle with being a new mother and the other is wanting a baby and family. Grab this book, block some time, and dive in, you won’t want to put it down.

I would have given this book 5 stars were it not for the ending. The ending in my opinion was too "happy". All the people who were previously "bad" turned good. I would have liked it to end on more of a twist, but the story was really good. A fast-paced read leaving the reader nearly breathless. The story starts with a woman handing her baby to another woman before jumping in front of a train. The women had never met before. The story moves on from this with all the related twists and complicated backgrounds switching between before and after the fall. A great debut by this author, looking forward to more.

Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey is a twisted tale of mental health issues. Depression, post-partum depression, suicide, paranoia, and panic disorder make this book a suspenseful story of who you can trust and second-guessing everyone and everything you think you know. I enjoyed this book very much and did not want to put it down. A real page-turner. I would highly recommend it.

Woman on the Edge is fast paced and will keep you guessing and trying to figure out who is out to get Nicole, Quinn, and Morgan! Morgan is left holding a baby, unsure what just happened. Though traumatized, her main concern is to do as instructed, "keep Quinn safe" and she goes on quite an adventure while trying to do so. If you like psychological and family type thrillers, this one is for you. In fact, if you just like thrillers, fast paced reads, and nail-biting, pick up this book as soon as possible! I would like to thank Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me with an advance reader copy in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion of this book.
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First off, I want to thank NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC for Woman On the Edge in return for an honest review.

Woman on the Edge was definitely a page turner. Good thing I do no have a busy day today as I could not stop reading it until I finished in the wee hours of the morning. The book toggles back and forth between two woman, Nicole, the high power exec struggling with ghosts from her past and postpartum depression, and Morgan, a woman who also has ghosts struggles with the desire to be a mother. In both cases, their past is catching up with them. This is a psychological thriller that is a great quick read.

Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey was a great, intense psychological thriller. It’s starts off with a lot of action and a big scene that immediately captures the readers attention and then goes back and forth between two points of view for the rest of the story so you see how and why everything played out the way it did. I really enjoyed getting to know both Nicole and Morgan and thought that they were really well developed characters.

This book shows the struggles of being a mom, a wife, a friend, a sibling, and a career professional at the same time. It discusses anxiety in a very real and relatable way. This book is so fast paced that you find yourself not allowing it to be put down because you need to get to the end or you just might go crazy yourself. The situations that the characters go through, specifically Nicole, break my heart, but it also helped to keep me guessing the whole time and messed with my head. I never knew who I could trust, as the reader, making it that much more relatable to Nicole’s experiences.

I would definitely read more by this author. Thank you to the publisher and to netgalley for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Has a complete stranger ever asked you for a favor? Did you choose to fulfill it, or did you ignore their request? What happens when a favor becomes one that becomes life altering? ⁣
This is the dilemma that Morgan Kincaid faces. Widowed and facing fallout from her husband’s misdeeds, Morgan is patiently waiting for the subway when a stranger asks Morgan to hold her baby, and then promptly jumps into the path of an oncoming train. In the days that follow, Morgan finds that she is the only witness and therefore a suspect in the woman’s death, who was a prominent CEO, Nicole Markham. Morgan is determined to clear her name and decides to investigate on her own. In between we get a glimpse into Nicole’s life before her death. ⁣
I was hooked on this premise immediately and devoured this book within a day. The author writes honestly about the struggles of new motherhood, especially concerning postpartum depression. I strongly empathized with how alone Nicole felt and wished her fate could have turned out differently. Unlike other readers, I did not guess the identity of the villain right away, and was on the edge of my seat until the final reveal. ⁣
And about that reveal: I have said previously that one of my biggest annoyances with thrillers/mysteries is when the hero & villain have their final confrontation, and the villain reveals their nefarious plan to them. I was really hoping this book wouldn’t succumb to this cliche, but alas it did. This is why it has received one less star rating than I would have originally given it. I just find it hard to believe that someone so cunning would do this. The villain had an accomplice, and while I was surprised at their partnering, their oh-so-convenient fate towards the end made me roll my eyes. But perhaps I was just eager for their comeuppance as well. The ending did teeter a bit on the Hollywood happy-ending side, as I never quite believed the romantic pairing of two characters and would have preferred someone on their own, raising Nicole’s daughter. ⁣
Despite my misgivings with this book, Samantha Bailey presented a unique and gripping debut novel, and I look forward to her next work

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in return for an honest review.

Morgan is standing on a subway platform, just waiting for the train.  Nicole steps in front of her, hands her a baby and addresses Morgan by name, telling her to take the baby and love her.  Nicole then steps off the platform, in front of the approaching train. Morgan’s life will be changed forever, by a woman she doesn’t even know.  Or does she? Morgan has a cloud hanging over her from some other issues that brought her in front of the police. Now, she is a suspect and must clear her name.

Honestly, it was a great start, and totally fizzled out from there.  The book was billed as pulse-pounding, heartrending, shocking and thrilling.  Nope. The story was formulaic, and I knew from the beginning who the villains were.  The story is told in dual timelines from both Morgan and Nicole’s perspectives, which works, but the storyline fell flat.  All along I knew how it would end, and the dangling suspense just wasn’t enough to hold my interest. The characters were developed, but totally unrelatable as well as unbelievable.  Nicole is a high-powered entrepreneur/executive, yet she is a weak character, even before any post-partum depression or gaslighting occurs. Morgan is full of woe is me and not very likable.  When the baby comes along, she pretty much goes off the deep end investigating Nicole, and does some really stupid things. The dialog is amateurish and along the lines of Holy Cow, Batman.

I'm usually so critical in my reviews.  I understand writing a book is hard work and you deserve something for the effort.  But this so totally misses the mark on so many levels.

P.S.  Did the author receive compensation for product placement?  Everything is described by its brand name: Sub-Zero refrigerator, Prada bag, Sharpie pen, Viking stove, etc.  Every single time they are mentioned.  

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Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey kept me up at night, woke me up early so I could read more before my day started, and kept me captivated from the first page to the last! It is riveting and suspenseful, with twists and turns that kept me guessing! Two women, caught in a web of deceit, paranoia, guilt and pain—Morgan and Nicole were strong women who became victims, not knowing who they could trust—could they find the strength they needed to save themselves?

Makes my head spin! CEO of Breathe, Nicole handed Morgan her baby girl and jumped in front of a train. Morgan doesn’t know Nicole. Why would she jump? More importantly, why would she hand her baby to a stranger? After giving birth, Nicole was homebound. She could not concentrate on anything, but keeping her baby alive, even at the expense of her marriage and job. With undetermined evidence that Nicole actually jumped, Morgan became the prime suspect in Nicole’s death. Morgan set out to uncover what was going on in Nicole’s life and cleared her name.

This story possesses all the elements for an excellent thriller/mystery. What is true and what is false is not absolutely determined here. It has me guessing the whole time. It’s not just the mystery of the story, but the motives of what happened to Nicole that made this story amazing. The ending was the perfect connection of everyone has well as every event. It tied the story together nicely. 


Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for letting me read this fabulous ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Holy moly! Talk about a thriller! I finished this book in less than 24 hours…and it only took me that long because I had to sleep and work, too.

Morgan is on her way to work when a bedraggled young mother asks her to hold her baby… and jumps in front of an oncoming train. She’s never met this woman before, and yet Morgan is certain the mother addressed her by name.

When the police discover just how badly Morgan wanted a baby and no commuters or camera footage is able to corroborate her version of events, Morgan begins to look like a suspect in Nicole Markham’s death. But in this book, things aren’t always what they seem.

Before the baby, Nicole was a high-powered CEO worth millions. Was she murdered? Or did something else push her over the edge? Finding the answer to that question is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat!

This book was awesome! I was hooked from the beginning and had a hard time putting it down! This book is told from multiple perspectives. The main character, Morgan, had a trauma in her past that affects some of her decisions and I felt that that area should have been explained a bit more to give more background on Morgan to help us understand her a bit better. I did feel that the ending was a little rushed, I felt that the bad guys motives could have been a little clearer. But all in all I really enjoyed this book and encourage others to pick it up!
Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest interview.

Thanks to Net Galley for the opportunity to read and review. I don't have much to say about this book. It kept my interest but ... it reminded me of a lifetime movie. Crazy acting young mother for no seemingly apparent reason, supposed friend turns out to be an enemy, husband betrays her, a second woman tries to solve the mysterious happenings with the help of a new friend who just happens to be a handsome young doctor. There's mayhem at the end with the perpetrator committing violent acts to hide her guilt. Oh my gosh, will the heroine make it out alive? Why yes she does. Surprise, surprise. And the story wraps up happily ever after. The end.

Fast-paced and thrilling! I loved the use of dual timelines — Morgan in the present day, and Nicole before everything changed — to ratchet up the tension and slowly reveal the truth.

Woman on the Edge is everything I look for in a thriller - tense, gripping & fast paced. Bailey has written a compulsively readable, "edge" of your seat thriller that had me wondering what was coming next and how the story would all come together. I am amazed that this was her first thriller as it reads like the work of a seasoned thriller writer!

A successful woman; a woman longing for a baby, and someone jumps in front of a train....
This story pulled me right in and kept me reading, quickly, to find out who, what, how and why.
While there were a couple of usual suspects, we later find out the real truth. Don't always take things at face value, and sometimes, odd connections become reality.
Great quick read, suspenseful, and a keeps you on your toes wondering if what we think we "see" is real or fabricated.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced reading copy. All opinions are my own

I received this ARC from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. This book was a fast-moving thriller. The storyline was engaging from the very beginning. I read this book in less than a day as I just could not put it down. Loved the characters, loved the story. I can't wait to read more by Samantha M. Bailey. Easily 5 stars!!!!!

Woman on the Edge was a fast read which I gobbled right up. I loved the alternating story told by Nicole and Morgan trying time figure out the connection. Morgan was a character you wanted to give a little shake to...and often but you liked her just the same and were rooting for her. I cannot wait to see what Samantha M. Bailey puts out next and pray I don’t have to wait 6 years. Well done, Ms. Bailey!

Thank you Simon and Schuster for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Pulse-pounding, heartrending, shocking, thrilling. This is one book you won't be able to stop thinking about.

As a busy mother, this one made me think and kept my attention.

Thank you #netgalley for this copy I really appreciated it!