The Friend

When Sophie's young son Ben is rushed to the hospital after an accident, he was in the care of Emma — a woman who became one of Sophie's closest friends after a chance meeting, quickly folding herself into the family's daily life. As Sophie waits by her son's bedside, she starts questioning how much she actually knows about the friend she let so far in.

Driscoll structures the book across two timelines, moving between the present hospital crisis and the weeks beforehand that trace how Emma inserted herself into Sophie's life, building suspicion alongside the reader's growing unease about Emma's true motives and past.

Marketed as "an emotional psychological thriller with a twist," The Friend is a domestic-suspense novel about trust, found intimacy, and how little it takes for a stranger to become indispensable.