by Abigail Dean
First published 2021
Lex Gracie has spent years avoiding her past. She escaped her parents' house of captivity as a teenager, freeing her older brother and four younger siblings. Her father died in the house he turned into a prison. Her mother served time behind bars until her recent death. Now the mother has left the family home to all the children. Lex wants to transform the house into something good, but she needs her siblings to agree. She must track down each brother and sister, confronting the different people they have become. Some siblings remember their childhood differently than Lex does. Others remain trapped by the family's twisted story. As Lex pushes for this final family decision, she discovers which siblings have truly escaped their past and which ones never left that house at all.
Genres: fiction, mystery, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: House
Period: Contemporary
352 pages · Hardcover · Viking
Content warnings: abuse, child-abuse, domestic-violence