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The author of the “rich dark and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Picks life is falling apart. In his thirties a virgin and living in his aunts spare bedroom he hThe author of the “rich dark and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Picks life is falling apart. In his thirties a virgin and living in his aunts spare bedroom he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct which he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel—involuntary celibate—forums where he meets the charismatic mysterious and sinister Bryn. Across the street from Owen lives the Fours family headed by mom Cate a physiotherapist and dad Roan a child psychologist. But the Fours family have a bad feeling about their neighbor Owen. Hes a bit creepy and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night. Meanwhile young Saffyre Maddox spent three years as a patient of Roan Fours. Feeling abandoned when their therapy ends she searches for other ways to maintain her connection with him following him in the shadows and learning more than she wanted to know about Roan and his family. Then on Valentines night Saffyre Maddox disappears—and the last person to see her alive is Owen Pick. With evocative vivid and unputdownable prose and plenty of disturbing twists and turns Jewells latest thriller is another “haunting atmospheric stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda New York Times bestselling author).(less)