First published 2015
Grace Blades treats troubled minds with exceptional skill, drawing from her own trauma. At five years old, she watched her parents die in a murder-suicide before finding safety with adoptive parents. Now an accomplished psychologist, Grace maintains a hidden dark side alongside her professional success. Her carefully separated worlds collide when Andrew Toner arrives seeking therapy. Both Grace and Andrew recognize each other from a recent encounter, leaving them shaken. Though Andrew desperately needs Grace's therapeutic expertise and willingly overlooks their connection, Grace refuses to treat him. His case mirrors her own childhood tragedy too closely. She regrets this decision when a homicide detective visits her office. The evil Grace believed she had escaped has returned, but she cannot risk a police investigation exposing her double life. Grace launches her own investigation instead, tracking a manipulative killer whose twisted hunger for control drags her back into the violence and chaos she spent years escaping.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
364 pages · Hardcover · Ballantine Books
Content warnings: mental-illness, murder, violence