First published 2015
Amy stands accused of murder, and her childhood friends Piper and Margot must return to the place where their friendship shattered. The Tower Motel in rural Vermont was their playground as children. They spent hours exploring its empty rooms and corridors until they discovered something that destroyed their bond forever. Now Amy has left them a cryptic message that forces the sisters to confront what happened at the motel decades ago. Their investigation leads them to Sylvie and Rose Slater, two sisters who lived at the Tower during its prosperous years. Sylvie dreamed of Hollywood stardom and imagined herself as Alfred Hitchcock's next leading lady. Rose preferred their quiet existence in Vermont. Each sister saw the other as fundamentally evil, but only one of them knew the truth that would echo through the years. As Piper and Margot dig deeper into the Slater sisters' story, they must face the connections between past and present, and the ways that buried secrets shape the people left behind.
Genres: drama, mystery, horror, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, haunting, introspective, suspenseful, unsettling
Tropes: childhood-trauma, dual-timeline, secrets-and-lies, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Tower Motel, Vermont
369 pages · Paperback · Anchor
Content warnings: death, murder