NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER β’ REESEβS BOOK CLUB PICK β’ βThis book is every suspense loverβs dream and it kept me up way too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday night plans for more chapters.ββReese Witherspoon
A backpacking trip has deadly consequences in this βeerie psychological thriller . . . with alluring locales, Hitchcockian tension, and possibly the best pair of female leads since Thelma and Louiseβ (BookPage), from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd.
A Marie Claire Book Club Pick β’ Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Readerβs Digest, Menβs Journal, and CrimeReads
Emily is having the time of her lifeβsheβs in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she brought back to their room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly similar to last yearβs trip, when another backpacker wound up dead. Emily canβt believe itβs happened againβcan lightning really strike twice?
Back home in Wisconsin, Emily struggles to bury her trauma, diving headfirst into a new relationship and throwing herself into work. But when Kristen shows up for a surprise visit, Emily is forced to confront their violent past. The more Kristen tries to keep Emily close, the more Emily questions her motives. As Emily feels the walls closing in on their cover-ups, she must reckon with the truth about her closest friend. Can Emily outrun the secrets she shares with Kristen, or will they destroy her relationship, her freedomβeven her life?
GENRE: Women's Friendship Fiction/Psychological Fiction/Psychological Thrillers