A dark past. A fresh start. A new nightmare waiting to begin.

Willow McAllister is desperate to start over. Quiet town. Blank slate. No attachments. When she meets her friendly new neighbour, Priya, it feels like a lifeline: the start of something good.

And then there’s Gabe: charming, funny, easy to talk to. Maybe she’s allowed a little happiness. Maybe she can trust again.

But Willow’s instincts have been wrong before. And when she discovers that Gabe and Priya share a past, the cracks start to show. Willow can’t help wondering if Priya’s arrival next door really was by chance. Because coincidences like this? They don’t feel like coincidences at all.

Is she imagining the tension between them? Or ignoring something she shouldn’t?

Someone is lying.

And Willow can’t afford to get it wrong again.

Shalini Boland is the Amazon and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty psychological thrillers. To date, she’s sold three million copies of her books. Shalini lives by the sea in Dorset, England, with her husband, two children and their increasingly demanding dog, Queen Jess. Before kids, she was signed to Universal Music Publishing as a singer/songwriter, but now she spends her days writing (in between restocking the fridge and dealing with endless baskets of laundry). She is also the author of two bestselling sci-fi and fantasy series as well as a WWII evacuee adventure with a time-travel twist. When she’s not reading, writing or stomping along the beach, you can reach her via Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ShaliniBolandAuthor, on TikTok @shaliniboland, on Bluesky @shaliniboland.bsky.social, on X @ShaliniBoland, on Instagram @shaboland, or via her website: www.shaliniboland.com. Visit Shalini’s website to sign up to her newsletter.