Shadows Behind Her Smile

When her husband is killed in action, psychic medium Cydney Granger finds herself cut off from the one voice she needs to hear most.

Four years after her husband, Captain Steve Granger, was killed while serving in Afghanistan, Cydney Granger has learned how to conceal her feelings from the outside world. She is a successful corporate forensics investigator and a devoted mother to teenage twins. Inside, she is still waiting to hear Steve’s voice.

Cydney is a spiritual medium, yet Steve remains unreachable. No goodbye. No reassurance. Just silence.

When the spirit of a recently deceased businessman appears and offers his help in exchange for exposing corruption and fraud within his family, Cydney accepts. What begins as a bargain born of grief, draws her into a dangerous investigation of blackmail, corporate crime, and a web of secrets powerful men will kill to protect.

As the stakes rise to attempted murder and kidnapping, Cydney must uncover the truth before everything she loves is destroyed. From the heart of Cydney’s corporate world in London and the financial machinations of America, to the ruins of war-torn Damascus, men will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

Faced with secrets, fraud, attempted murder, and blackmail, can Cydney come out of this unscathed? And, after four years, is she ready to let Steve go.

The Blacklist meets Medium, The Shadows Behind Her Smile is an emotionally driven paranormal corporate thriller about grief, corruption, and the hope that love does not end with death.
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Praise for the Cydney Granger Thriller Series:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I was hooked within the first 2 chapters.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Gripped from beginning to end.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The emotions I felt whilst reading were so intense that I felt like I was there.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thrilling, chilling, heart-warming and even tear provoking.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A paranormal thriller… truly gripping.

Karen Millie-James was born in North London to a father who had escaped Germany with the kindertransport in 1939 and a mother who was a talented window dresser and designer in London's West End. Inspired to do well, Karen studied business and languages at the University of Westminster which led to her joining the legal department of Levi Strauss, quickly being promoted to European Group Company Secretary where she remained until the company closed down its UK headquarters.

For the following ten years, Karen worked for a multi-discipline organisation in Central London but it was always Karen's dream to set up her own consultancy which she did twenty-three years ago. Now Karen is widely recognised internationally as an expert in the corporate field and sits on many boards of directors worldwide in an advisory capacity. A couple of years ago she was asked to mentor MBA students at the University of Westminster in London on a voluntary basis to which she agreed with much pleasure.

Karen never intended to write a book but what started as a hobby in her spare time away from the office, working in the evenings until late into the night and at weekends, has now become a new and exciting part of her life. Writing The Shadows Behind Her Smile has become her passion made easier due to her background in business, literature and linguistics and having a vivid imagination.

Karen now lives in the Buckinghamshire countryside with her husband of three years and their three dogs. She still works full-time in her business but the remainder is spent writing, playing tennis, going to the theatre and travelling, and having quality time with her daughter who is a professional performer.