I’m SO excited to share the cover of my next book, coming your way in June 2025 and now available for preorder! Head to @People for an exclusive reveal and excerpt (link in bio!).
📖 description: On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s still on the island—in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here.
When Abby decided to come to Isla Colel, she wasn't sure what—if anything—she'd find. She only knew that she needed to see the place where her fiancée, Eszter, died, to try and make sense of everything that happened.
The island is nothing like Abby expected; though it was once a bustling tourist hub, a hurricane a few years earlier left it a shell of its former self, with only a few locals and expats remaining. Even the once-daily ferry to the mainland now only runs every week or so.
There, Abby befriends an alluring group of expats, but her sense of unease surges when one of them says he knows the truth about Eszter's last days. Before she can see him, though, he vanishes from the island. Hours turn to days with no sign of him, and the other expats are chillingly cavalier about his disappearance.
As her quest for the truth unearths dark secrets, shady pasts, and a web of lies, Abby grows more determined than ever to find out what happened to the love of her life. And the deeper she gets in the close-knit expat community, the more she suspects one of them is Eszter's killer—and will do anything to keep the truth buried. But will she discover who it is before she becomes the island’s next victim? #coverreveal #thrillerbooks @Random House Books
aquatic ambience - Scizzie
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·2022-11-29You can’t have too many staged photos of your book! #authorlife #amateurphotographer
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·1-30Just when you think you know what to expect…this was a first for me! 😍 Fellow #authors, do you get your page proofs from your publisher loose-leaf or bound like a book?! #authorlife
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·2024-12-20On Sunday, I got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to debut a cover LIVE in front of 1000+ book lovers at @Hello Sunshine’s #shineaway2024. My heart was pounding like crazy…and I’ll never forget that collective GASP when it showed up on the screen! I also loved getting to pitch it aloud for the first time and watch the audience react to the hook. Huge thanks to @ReesesBookClub for making this dream come true! #TheLastFerryOut is coming in June 2025, and I can’t wait to share it with you. @Random House Books #coverreveal
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·2024-10-11Shacking up with a hot, rich couple during the lockdown is all fun and games until someone winds up dead… #thespareroom @randomhouse #summerreads
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·2024-7-3🚩When the couple you fall for seems a little TOO perfect… #summerreads #thespareroombook @Random House Books
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·2024-6-13When your reader FINALLY gets to the big reveal, you want them to have a huge reaction…and the last thing you want them to say is, “WHO?” I see it all the time: Mystery writers are so afraid they’re going to make their twists and the whodunit obvious that they downplay the hints, lean hard on the red herrings, and ultimately make the clues pointing toward whodunit too subtle. Case in point: the murderer is someone we haven’t seen or seriously considered as a suspect in many, many chapters…so much so that busy readers (who, remember, are reading or listening in little chunks while also leading busy lives!) have totally forgotten who that is. The solution? Have a small stable of possible suspects with the means, motive, and opportunity. Have your investigator (professional or amateur) pay attention to the real murderer, and include clues that seem to point to someone else but actually point to the truth. Ask beta readers to jot down their theories and thinking as they read. You want the reader to feel two things at once: surprise, plus, “That makes so much sense—how did I miss it?!” QOTD: if you’ve ever read a mystery and felt let down by the killer, why didn’t it work for you? (No tearing down books or authors, and no spoilers, please!) And what’s a book that stuck the landing in a big way?? #authortips #mysterybooks
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·2024-6-12…which doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt! #authorsoftiktok #writinginspiration #bookreviews
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·2024-4-10Your periodic reminder to block out the naysayers. Your story is worth telling and you’re the only one who can share it. There will ALWAYS be people who choose to tear stuff down—and it’s because they themselves aren’t brave enough to create. #authorsoftiktok #writinginspiration
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·2024-2-6If every character had sky-high maturity, excellent decision-making, and loads of emotional maturity, well…it wouldn’t make for a very interesting book, would it?! #bookreviews #authorsoftiktok #unlikablecharacters
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·2024-2-2#authors, do you go on #goodreads? I had to stop reading reviews of my books because they were too painful (some people REALLY hate messy heroines), but some writers (with thicker skins!) can take in the feedback without a middleman. What about you? #bookreviews #authorproblems #authorlife #authorsoftiktok
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