Nobody Has To Know
Nobody Has To Know, Frank Nappi's dark and daring new thriller, tells the story of Cameron Baldridge, a popular high school teacher whose relationship with one of his students leads him down an unfortunate and self-destructive path. Stalked through text-messages, Baldridge fights for his life against a terrifying extortion plot and the forces that threaten to expose him. NHTK is a sobering look into a world of secrets, lies, and shocking revelations, and will leave the reader wondering many things, including whether or not you can ever really know the person you love.Purchase Nobody Has To Know on Amazon.
About Author Frank Nappi
Frank Nappi has taught high school English and Creative Writing for over twenty years. His debut novel, Echoes From The Infantry, received national attention, including MWSA's silver medal for outstanding fiction. His follow-up novel, The Legend of Mickey Tussler, garnered rave reviews as well, including a movie adaptation of the touching story "A Mile in His Shoes" starring Dean Cain and Luke Schroder. Frank continues to produce quality work, including Sophomore Campaign, the intriguing sequel to the much heralded original story and the just released thriller, NOBODY HAS TO KNOW, which received an endorsement from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille. Frank is presently at work on a third installment of his Mickey Tussler series and his next thriller. He lives on Long Island with his wife Julia and their two sons, Nicholas and Anthony.
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Excerpt from the book
The conversations between Nikki and Cam grew far more frequent and personal in nature. There were still many nights when he lay awake, torturing himself over all he had to lose. But in talking to her, he was thunderstruck, discovering that he was indeed interesting and exciting. And that he could still feel good. He was all at once deflected from the doom and gloom that had been defining his days recently. Even the fear of losing his job seemed to pale with time. Maybe he did not have to settle. Maybe he did not have to be a regular Joe – the safe, predictable guy who had numbed himself to a world filled with excitement and opportunity. The longer he got away with it, the more invincible he felt.
“Do things ever get easier when you are an
adult?” she once asked. He had just gotten finished making some phone calls to
the parents of a few of his students when his phone went off.
“Do things ever get easier?” he repeated
laughing.
“Yeah, you know. Once you are older, and in
control of what you do.”
“Easier? No, not easier. Different? Yes.
But easier? No way. I have doubts sometimes too Nikki,” he explained. “I feel
sometimes like I have gotten stuck in things in my life just because it was
comfortable and expected. I think I was duped by the safety of it all. You
know, I stayed with my high school girlfriend even though it wasn’t right just
because I thought I should be with her forever. Then I met Hayley and the same
is true. I’ve always been this way. I majored in English, and my parents were
thrilled. ‘Oh, it will be so nice to have a teacher in the family.’ That’s not
what I decided. But, naturally, the next safe, logical thing was to teach –
because what else would you do with an English degree? Right?”
Saying the words out loud made more him
certain that pursuing this thing, whatever it was, was just what he needed.
“Well, I kinda know what you mean,” she
said. “Obviously, I don’t understand all of that, but in my house, I am just
expected to know what to do. Nobody really bothers too much with me. I’m sort
of on my own.”
“What about your brothers and sisters?”
“Gone,” she said. “All of them are grown up and out of the house. My oldest
sister Karina is thirty two, Shari is twenty nine, and Lauren is twenty seven.
I was obviously an oops.”
“Hey, don’t say that. Come on now. How do
you know that’s the case?” …
“They’re always busy,” she explained. “My
dad’s an attorney at some big firm in the city, and my mom is a hospital
administrator or something like that at Franklin General. They’re never around.
And when they are, they are always picking at me about something.”
Every night, for several weeks, the two of
them talked. She was becoming so much more than this young, beautiful object of
his raw desire. She was, in many ways, this newly discovered life source,
coursing through his body. Everything he had, and everything he saw, was sort
of redefined now in terms of her.
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