Saturday Night Sisters

by Kathleen Irene Paterka

Do your best friends really know all your secrets? Mary Anne, Margaret, Naomi, and Pats have been sharing their lives and secrets with each other for more than sixty years. Best friends since their school days at St. Elizabeth Academy, their monthly Saturday night dinners together are sacred, with everything served up for discussion. But do they really know each other as well as they think? A closet alcoholic with a murderous grudge. A political candidate threatened by scandal. A DNA test with devastating results. A dissatisfied wife involved in an internet romance. As the past, present and future collide with tragic consequences, each woman finds her closest friendships suddenly put to the test. When it comes to sharing our deepest darkest secrets, how much of the truth are we willing to admit? How high are the walls we build around our hearts to protect ourselves from being judged…by family, ourselves, and even our closest friends? Are some secrets too sacred—or shameful—to share?

394 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 12, 2020

About the author

Kathleen Irene Paterka is a bestselling author of Women's Fiction. New for 2023 and now available: DON'T OPEN THE DOOR, a psychological domestic suspense novel. Kathleen and her husband live in the beautiful north country of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Reviews

[Janine · Rating 5 out of 5]

My goodness what an excellent book this is! The story of 4 mature aged friends who get together every month for dinner and between them have a convincing facade that masks what is really going on in their lives.
Naomi is a widow who is trying to,carve out her independence since her husband passed, Mary Anne is sick of being taken for granted by her lazy husband, Pats is married to a handsome and successful surgeon but all is not what is seems behind closed doors and alcohol is her constant companion and then there is Margaret who is a talented and successful lawyer who is given the opportunity of a lifetime, but what consequences will ensue?

I felt totally invested in this story and the author did a great job of explaining their lives and the dynamics between the four friends. There was a bit of romance and some tears were shed but that is what makes a great read, which this was! Perfect for fans of female friendships and women’s fiction.

[Peggy Kusina · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful tale about 4 women who have been friends since childhood and the secrets they kept from each other.