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.
Grace's charming, publicly admired husband who controls every detail of her life.
Grace's younger sister, who has Down syndrome, and whose future is the leverage held over Grace.