Don't Believe Her

The narrator has everything she hoped for: a small daughter and an engagement to Nick, the man she has had a crush on since she was a child. Only one thing is missing from the picture. Nick's sister Carla, once the narrator's closest friend, ran away at sixteen and has not been heard from since.

Then Nick announces that Carla is coming home. For the narrator it feels like the final piece of her life settling into place.

It does not hold. Carla is friendly enough, yet she refuses to say where she has spent all these years. When she talks about their shared childhood, the details are slightly off, and in just the spots the narrator would know best.

The book is a psychological suspense novel told from the narrator's point of view, built on one uncomfortable position. She alone can sense that Carla is not quite right, and she stands to lose the most if she voices it. Expect a domestic, close-focus story where doubt builds through small mismatches in conversation rather than big events.