Someone Knows

Elizabeth teaches creative writing at a college, and she usually looks forward to the first weeks of a semester. That changes when a student submits the opening chapter of a manuscript called The Reckoning. It follows a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher.

Elizabeth recognises the story at once, because she lived it. The girl on the page is her best friend Jocelyn. She also knows how the manuscript must end, with the teacher dead, since she is the one who killed him twenty years ago.

The chapters arrive one at a time from a student whose identity she does not know. Someone has learned what she did, and each new installment brings the exposure of her secret closer. To find out who is behind it, Elizabeth goes back to her hometown in Louisiana, the place she left behind.

The thriller carries a sexual charge and is built around a secret the protagonist has kept for two decades. Pressure tightens through a story inside the story, a hidden author, and a woman who learns that the years have not put distance between her and that night.