First published 2025
Evie Gordon arrives at the Beverly Hills mansion for another tutoring session and finds her employers dead in the garden. She discovers a bound woman in a closet and frees her. Someone spots them, and suddenly they become fugitive suspects in a brutal double murder. Evie knows she must find the real killer to clear her name. Her silent companion refuses to speak but becomes central to Evie's transformed life. The two women flee across the country as the case dominates headlines. The media paints Evie as a class warrior, a scholarship kid turned killer who represents the ninety-nine percent's rage. She finally becomes someone famous, just not how she imagined. The press calls her the new Charles Manson. Magazine covers feature her face everywhere. This darkly comic thriller follows their breathless journey as Evie struggles to prove her innocence while breaking down the walls her mysterious companion has built around herself.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, adult-fiction, thriller, dark
Vibes: atmospheric, darkly-comic, fast-paced, gritty, suspenseful
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, on-the-run, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Beverly Hills, United States
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
320 pages · Paperback · William Morrow Paperbacks
Content warnings: murder, violence