Angol
"The safest place to hide evidence is inside the person you've convinced to stop looking."
Holly Reed arrives at a remote, isolated cabin in northern Maine with her husband, Ben, hoping to repair their fractured marriage. But the promise of a romantic weekend shatters the moment she walks through the door.
The woodstove is already burning. Their framed wedding photos sit on the mantel. And the dining table is perfectly set for four, complete with handwritten place cards bearing their names and the names of two strangers.
When Holly finds a guestbook entry in her own handwriting dated six months ago-a weekend she supposedly spent at a work conference-she realizes her reality is unraveling. As an insurance claims adjuster, Holly's entire career is built on finding missing details, spotting receipts that don't add up, and uncovering the lies people tell. But this time, the claim she is investigating is her own life.
Why does she have absolutely no memory of being at this cabin? Who are the other two guests? And why has Ben been secretly filling a highly potent dosage of her anxiety medication at a pharmacy hours away from their home?
As Holly makes the dangerous choice to stop taking the pills her husband so lovingly manages, the chemical fog begins to lift. What surfaces are terrifying fragments of a violent night on the cabin's dock, a freezing dark lake, and a devastating betrayal that someone was willing to kill to keep quiet.
