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Bestselling author Riley Sager delivers a chilling Gothic thriller about a young caregiver who is assigned to a woman long suspected of committing a gruesome murder decades earlier.

In 1929, the Hope family massacre sent shockwaves through the Maine coast. Seventeen-year-old Lenora Hope was widely believed to be responsible for the brutal murders of her parents and sister, but with no concrete proof, the police were never able to charge her. Other than denying her involvement after the killings, Lenora has never spoken about that horrifying night. Since then, she has lived in complete isolation at Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the tragedy took place.

More than fifty years later, in 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at the now-decaying estate to care for Lenora, who is in her seventies, confined to a wheelchair, and unable to speak due to several strokes. The only way Lenora can communicate is by typing out messages on an old typewriter. One night, she uses it to make a startling declaration—she wants to reveal everything.

As Lenora begins to share her account of what led to the infamous murders, Kit starts to uncover shocking new details. But when disturbing truths emerge about the sudden disappearance of Lenora’s previous nurse, Kit begins to wonder if Lenora is truly as helpless as she appears—or if she is far more dangerous than she ever imagined.