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385 pages, Hardcover
First published June 20, 2023
I pause before driving away. “Thanks for helping me with the gate. I’m not sure what I would have done if you hadn’t come by.”
“I think you would have managed somehow.” Carter studies me, his head tilted in curious appraisal. “You strike me as being pretty resourceful.”
"On the phone, I gave away that Virginia was alive, accidentally leading him right to her."
"For a restless girl like me who lost every time my father forced us to play the game in which he locked us in our rooms, I shockingly had no trouble spending most of my time in bed. Very quickly, I learned how to lay very still, sometimes for hours, while my mind roamed the world, going wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted."
"I want to tell you everything things ive never told anyone else yes about that night because i trust you"
"You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am. The answer is no. And yes."
"At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope, stabbed her father with a knife, took her mother’s happy life"