Promise Me Never

Savannah is an aspiring writer who contrives a meeting with Bennett Bryson, a famous horror novelist. He offers to read her work and is quickly taken with her. After a fast romance she accepts his proposal, and the couple settle into his secluded home in upstate New York.

The new life starts to sour. Bennett turns dark and controlling: he picks apart Savannah's writing, decides which activities she may take part in, and shuts himself in his office, where she is forbidden to go.

His first wife, Poppy, a free-spirited and passionate artist, died in an accident. Her presence hangs over the house, and Savannah feels herself competing with her for Bennett's affection.

Then a warning arrives: Bennett is not who he seems, and the women before Savannah have vanished. Cut off and unsure whom to trust, she starts piecing together the story of her husband and of the woman he married first.

Savannah has secrets too, and someone knows them. This psychological thriller is built on twists and betrayals, and it keeps both writers' pasts in play until the final pages.