Behind Closed Doors

To everyone who knows them, Jack and Grace Angel are the perfect couple. Jack is handsome, charming, and wildly successful — a barrister who has never lost a case defending abused women. Grace is elegant and devoted, endlessly available to her husband and never, ever seen without him. Their friends are a little envious. What none of them can imagine is what waits on the other side of the Angels' beautiful front door.

Because behind closed doors, Grace's dream marriage is a meticulously constructed cage. Every detail of her life is controlled, monitored, and weaponized by a man whose public compassion is a mask for something monstrous. And with her beloved younger sister Millie, who has Down syndrome, due to move in soon, Grace is running out of time to find a way out.

Told in tautly alternating chapters that cut between the couple's whirlwind courtship and Grace's present-day imprisonment, B.A. Paris's Behind Closed Doors is a claustrophobic domestic thriller about coercive control and the quiet desperation of a woman fighting to save herself and the person she loves most.