Part of Cyrus Haven
First published 2023
Cyrus Haven was nineteen when his brother Elias murdered their parents and twin sisters, driven by voices only he could hear. Now, nearly two decades later, Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital, and Cyrus is expected to open his door and forgive. He is not sure he can. Cyrus works as a psychologist alongside the police. He shares his house with Evie Cormac, a teenager with a rare and unsettling gift: she can tell when anyone is lying. Evie has been trying to build something ordinary, attending school and picking up shifts at an inner-city bar. Then a man is murdered and his daughter Maya Kirk vanishes. Police trace Maya's last known hours to the same bar where Evie works. A second woman is taken. Evie catches a glimpse of the man driving away. She reports what she saw, and almost no one believes her. Two people do. One is Cyrus. The other is the killer. Elias coming home and a predator circling closer pull Cyrus in opposite directions, and Evie stands exposed at the center of both.
Genres: mystery, crime, adult, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, gripping, intense, psychological, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-past, found-family, protective-mentor, unreliable-narrator
352 pages · Hardcover · Scribner
Content warnings: child-death, mental-illness, murder, violence