by Megan Goldin
First published 2024
Liv Reese opens her eyes in the back of a moving taxi. She has no idea where she is or how she got there. The driver drops her at what should be her Brooklyn apartment, but a stranger opens the door and claims to live there now. When Liv checks her phone for help, she discovers a bloodstained knife and finds a message scrawled on her hand: STAY AWAKE. The words match a crime scene report she sees on the news, where someone used the victim's blood to write an identical message on a window. Liv cannot remember what happened the night before. Worse, she realizes she has lost two entire years of her life. Someone knows exactly what she did during those missing hours. That person will stop at nothing to ensure she never remembers. Liv must piece together the truth before her unknown enemy silences her forever.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: deception, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Brooklyn
448 pages · Mass Market Paperback · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Content warnings: violence