by L. S. Hilton
First published 2023
Lisa has built a career around invisibility. The writer collects secrets from married men who confide in her during their affairs, men who reveal intimate details about their wives while knowing nothing about her in return. This careful balance shatters when anonymous messages arrive from someone claiming to be one of those wives. Lisa responds the only way she knows how: she begins writing about the correspondence as it unfolds. She documents her detailed knowledge of these other women and explores the hidden mechanics of infidelity. But her professional curiosity transforms into something darker. The messages from her anonymous correspondent grow increasingly menacing as Lisa becomes obsessed with identifying which wife has found her out. The investigation consumes her as she weighs whether the danger is real or exists only in her paranoid imagination. The situation forces Lisa to confront questions of honesty and redemption while exposing the contradictions that define contemporary relationships.
Genres: fiction, suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: obsession, unreliable-narrator
304 pages · Paperback · Massot Publishing
Content warnings: mental-illness