First published 2018
Cassandra Bowden opens her eyes in a Dubai hotel room with a crushing hangover and a dead stranger beside her. Blood stains the white sheets. The man she spent the night with lies motionless, his dark hair the only detail she can focus on through her panic. Cassie has built her life around binge drinking and blackouts, using her airline job to fuel adventures across the globe. Now she faces her worst nightmare. She cannot remember what happened the night before. She cannot call the Dubai police. She is alone, far from home, with a corpse. Cassie chooses to lie. She lies to her crew in the shuttle van. She lies while serving passengers on the flight to Paris. She lies when FBI agents meet her at the gate in New York. Each deception traps her deeper. The truth about Dubai becomes more dangerous to reveal with every passing hour. Cassie must confront the terrifying possibility that she committed murder during one of her blackouts, or discover who else wanted the man dead.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: crime, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Dubai, Paris, New York
Period: 21st-century
354 pages · Hardcover · Doubleday
Content warnings: alcohol-abuse, murder