First published 2026
Savannah schemes to meet Bennett Bryson, the superstar horror novelist she admires. Her plan works better than expected. Bennett reads her writing, falls for her instantly, and proposes after a brief courtship. They move to his isolated house upstate, where Savannah expects her dream life to begin. Instead, Bennett turns controlling and cruel. He tears apart her manuscripts, restricts her movements, and locks himself away for hours. His dead first wife Poppy haunts every corner of the house. The free-spirited artist died in an accident, yet Bennett still seems devoted to her memory. Then someone warns Savannah that Bennett hides something deadly. Other women married to him have vanished without explanation. Trapped in the remote woods with a husband she no longer recognizes, Savannah digs into Bennett's past and Poppy's death. She discovers that Bennett conceals far more than she suspected. But Savannah carries secrets too, and someone knows exactly what they are.
Genres: fiction, mystery, adult, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, claustrophobic, dark, psychological, suspenseful, twisted
Tropes: dark-secrets, gaslighting, trapped-protagonist, unreliable-narrator
Setting: isolated house upstate
368 pages · Paperback · Random House Large Print
Content warnings: domestic-violence, emotional-abuse, gaslighting, murder