The Collective

Camille Gardner lost her daughter five years ago, and grief has hardened into anger. She remains fixed on a privileged young man she holds responsible for the death, and her rash actions toward him draw the notice of a secret group of women who call themselves the collective.

Each member of the group has her own story of loss. They share a conviction that wealth and status shield the guilty from accountability, and that perpetrators too often walk away untouched. Their answer is revenge killings, planned with care and carried out anonymously, with every woman responsible for one specific task in each plan.

Camille is pulled into this hidden network without knowing what it really is. She cannot tell whether she has stumbled into a role-playing game or into something deadly and real, and she has to decide whether these women are avenging angels or monsters. The deeper she goes, the more she learns about the group and about herself, and some of it may be more than she can survive.

This is a psychological suspense novel with a revenge plot at its centre. It moves at a driving pace, keeps a dark tone, and places a mother's rage against a justice system that protects the privileged.