First published 2023
Breanna expected a perfect romantic weekend in New York City with her new boyfriend Ty. He arranged everything: train tickets, dinner reservations, and a luxury four-story rowhouse rental in Jersey City overlooking Manhattan. On their final morning, Bree walks downstairs to discover Ty has vanished. A dead woman lies in the foyer. The corpse belongs to Janelle Beckett, the missing person case that has captivated the internet. Police arrive with questions Bree cannot answer. Online investigators begin digging into her life. She needs to locate Ty and protect her own buried secrets. Only one person can help her: her former best friend, now a lawyer, with whom she shares a tangled history. Bree must navigate suspicion from law enforcement and amateur detectives while Black and under scrutiny. The search for truth forces her to question how well she knows the people closest to her.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Jersey City, Manhattan, New York City
Period: Contemporary
400 pages · Hardcover · Simon Schuster UK