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  • Published: 1 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780857983411
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Losing Kate




This mesmerising debut novel is part love story, part mystery, telling the captivating story of two lovers torn apart by tragedy and the secrets they kept of one devastating night.

This mesmerising debut novel is part love story, part mystery, telling the captivating story of two lovers torn apart by tragedy and the secrets they kept of one devastating night.

I’m the most authentic version of myself when I’m around Jack. We’ve known each other since we were kids, and our relationship was always one of mudpies and mocking.

Then everything changed.

Beautiful Kate, my best friend, disappeared on a moonlit beach after Jack dumped her for me. Jack was a suspect and, sure of his innocence, I lied to protect him. I know Jack didn’t kill her. Our betrayal did.

Thirteen years later, I am thirty, childless and single, attempting to renovate my life rescuing a rundown worker’s cottage. All is as it should be in my safe little world – until Jack buys the vacant lot behind my house… and the feelings that we buried all those years ago – the guilt, the love and the pain - resurface.

We can’t keep running away from the past – and to move forward we have to know what really happened to Kate.

  • Published: 1 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780857983411
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Kylie Kaden

Since being plucked from the Random House slushpile, Brisbane writer Kylie Kaden is now an internationally published author of women’s fiction (when she’s not wrangling her sticky brood of boys). Kylie followed her breakthrough debut Losing Kate, with another critically acclaimed suspenseful read, Missing You, in 2015.

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Praise for Losing Kate

I’m on board the Kylie Kaden fanclub and highly recommend all readers to high tail out and get yourself a copy of this book. Australian author and setting. Very proud fellow Aussie.

Australian Romance Readers Association

A tale that explores mystery, friendship and love, written in a beautiful and flowing style.

Gold Coast Bulletin

A rich, evocative read that kept me riveted to the end... A stunning debut.

Helene Young