Dru’s Short Musing:
Carly thought she left her past behind her, but when a colleague’s dead body is found in her office, Carly must fight for her sanity and her life.

This was a well-written and complex drama that immediately grabbed my attention, quickly becoming a page-turner as I had to know how this was going to end. The author did a great job in setting the stage with a tightly woven storyline that controlled the narration in a suspenseful tone with plenty of twists that saw the complicated dynamics be front and center in the telling of this tale. Who was doing what to whom and why became the focus as the drama spilled out onto the pages with tension building to a grippingly thrilling conclusion. Overall, this was an excellent read.

Genre: Domestic Suspense
Release: April 7, 2026
Format: Print, Digital
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Book Synopsis:
A woman’s life is upended when her past comes back to mess with her mind in this psychological thriller full of twists and turns.

There’s no such thing as perfect.

It’s been fifteen years since Carly Bennett’s mother was brutally murdered during a home robbery. Since then, she’s worked hard to build a normal life with a stellar career as an English professor—far away from the picture-perfect stepfamily that abandoned her at boarding school.

When a male colleague is found dead in Carly’s office—her name scrawled next to his body—everything she’s strived for starts to fall apart. There are eerie similarities to her mother’s attack, and Carly determines to find the truth.

Yet things take a bizarre turn when she suddenly experiences lost time, waking up in strange places, and flashes of dormant memories . . . memories that can’t possibly be real. Because, if they are, then she was there the night her mother was killed.

Could Carly have been responsible? Or is something more sinister at play in her stepfamily’s perfect world . . .?

FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.