First published 2025
Meg Russo was driving when the erratic young men in the other car forced them off the road. Her husband Justin died in the crash. Their eighteen-year-old daughter Lily, a music prodigy headed to Ithaca College, survived. Four months later, Meg reopens her small bookstore, trying to move forward through her grief. Strange visitors arrive with threatening messages. They vandalize her store and make increasingly violent threats. The conspiracy theorists obsess over a young adult book called The Prophesy that Meg published twenty years ago. Online believers claim the novel predicted a plague and connects to Satanism. They see it as a sign of the apocalypse. As the threats escalate, Meg begins to suspect Justin's death was no accident. She must uncover the truth behind the lies driving these people to hunt her family and find a way to protect herself and Lily.
Genres: suspense, mystery, contemporary, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Ithaca College
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
325 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: violence