The Roommate

Wesley Gates is in debt, worn down by a career that never lets up, and married to a woman who has run out of patience with a marriage he let fail for years. At her request he leaves the house to give her space, and he has nowhere to go.

By chance he meets an old classmate, Elias, who remembers him from his better years. Elias has a spare bedroom and almost no social life, and he offers to rent it out. Wes accepts at once, grateful for a familiar face when everything else has fallen apart.

The arrangement sours. Elias has sudden, extreme mood swings, odd things keep happening in the apartment, and he shows no respect for Wes's privacy. Wes starts to wonder whether the man who took him in is a rescuer or a danger.

Then his wife gives him news that takes away what little footing he has left, and Elias may be the only person Wes still has. The book is a psychological thriller told close on Wes, and it leaves open whether the threat is real or only in his head. Expect a tense, claustrophobic read built around one shared home and a man with fewer and fewer places to turn.