First published 2010
Zee Finch thought she understood trauma. As a Boston psychotherapist, she helps others navigate their deepest wounds. But when one of her troubled patients dies, Zee discovers threads connecting this tragedy to her own buried past. The death forces her to return to Salem, Massachusetts, where family secrets have festered for years. Back in her childhood home, Zee must confront the truth about her own identity and the events that shaped her. Her professional expertise means nothing here. She faces the same raw emotions and hidden betrayals that destroyed her patient. As Zee peels back layers of family deception, she realizes that healing others was easier than healing herself. The boundaries between therapist and patient blur. She must choose between the safe distance of her professional life and the messy reality of her own story.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, psychological-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Boston, Massachusetts, Salem
Period: 21st-century
432 pages · Kindle Edition · HarperCollins e-books