From the bestselling author of The Double Bind , Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.

"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels.

Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice’s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen – who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him.

But then the State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.

Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems. As one character remarks, “Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our stories are suspect.”

From the Hardcover edition.

克利斯•波杰里安（Chris Bohjalian）1960年生于纽约，1982年毕业于阿默斯特学院，是《柯梦波丹》、《读者文摘》、《波士顿周日环球杂志》等多家期刊的撰稿人，并辟有个人专栏。他是美国最受欢迎的小说家之一，其作品倾向于描述普通人在不可预见的情况下产生的困境，并往往以性格为导向，围绕复杂且有缺陷的主角和次要人物循环。他的很多故事都发生在真实的佛蒙特州的一些虚构的城镇，以至于让众多读者误认为确有其地。

克利斯•波杰里安迄今已发表小说13部，包括曾入选《出版人周刊》“最佳好书”、“奥普拉读书俱乐部”选书的《纽约时报》畅销作品《助产士》。此外，他也有多本着作登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜。2002年获颁“新英格兰最佳小说奖”。《旧金山纪事报》描述他的作品为：“平凡人物在心痛时刻所表现出来的优雅与尊严”。他的作品被翻译成26种语言，销售近500万册，其中3部作品曾被改编成电影。他和妻女现居佛蒙特州。