'Mesmerising' The Herald
'Glorious' Steph Cha
'Tense and twisting' Sunday Times


This was the house that would change their fortunes...

Best friends since childhood, Bart, Teddy and Cole run their own small-town construction company, True Triangle. When the mysterious Gretchen Connors, a millionaire lawyer from California, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable house project in the mountains above town, the three friends convince themselves it's the job which will change everything.

But in a world increasingly about the haves and have nots, how dangerous is it to dream big?

Nickolas Butler was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His award-winning debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, was an international bestseller and optioned for film by Fox Searchlight Pictures. His second novel, Hearts of Men, was a finalist for the 2016 Prix Médicis Etrangere and his third, Little Faith, was awarded the Edward Stanford Travel Award for Best Novel in 2020. Butler, who attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, currently lives in Wisconsin with his wife and their two children.