"If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana
French, here's your next obsession."--Kelly Link, author of White Cat,
Black Dog
From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street,
comes **a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark
obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.
**
In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has
begun the last book he will ever write.
It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in
Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his
small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions,
Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how
the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping
their lives.
But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory.
He starts to see things that can't be real - notes hidden in his
cupboards, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning
in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn't
recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?
No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this
will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.
"An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you
don't see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut."--Lauren Beukes,
author of The Shining Girls
