First published 2025
Jet Mason comes from wealth in Woodstock, Vermont, but at twenty-seven she has done nothing with her life. She keeps postponing everything, convinced she has plenty of time ahead. On Halloween night, an unknown attacker breaks into her home and beats her savagely. The assault leaves Jet with severe brain damage. Her doctor delivers a grim verdict: the injury will cause a fatal aneurysm within seven days. Jet never considered herself someone with enemies. Now she must examine everyone around her with fresh suspicion. Her own family members become suspects. Her former best friend, who married Jet's brother, takes on a sinister cast. Even her ex-boyfriend seems capable of violence. As her brain injury worsens each day, Jet relies on Billy, her loyal childhood friend, to help her investigate. With her body failing and time running out, Jet commits to completing one final task. For the first time in her life, she refuses to procrastinate. She will identify her attacker before the aneurysm strikes. Jet Mason is going to solve her own murder.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Woodstock, Vermont
Period: Halloween
400 pages · Hardcover · Bantam
Content warnings: violence