"Deliciously unputdownable." --The Washington Post
"A stunning, disturbing thriller that will have your mind and heart
racing." --Samantha Downing
From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a
pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult
and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost.
While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends
met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way
the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay
and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now,
eight years later, Shay's built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But
when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel's death--delivered, of all
ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader--she begins to suspect
that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive, and the
predators more dangerous than ever.
Recruiting the help of the podcast host, Shay goes back to the place she
vowed never to return to in search of answers. As she follows the
threads of her friend's life, she's pulled into a dark, seductive world,
where wealth and privilege shield brutal philosophies that feel all too
familiar. When Shay's obsession with uncovering the truth becomes so
consuming she can no longer separate her desire for justice from darker
desires newly reawakened, she must confront the depths of her own
complicity and conditioning. But in a world built for men to rule
it--both inside the cult and outside of it--is justice even possible,
and if so, how far will Shay go to get it?
