Leigh Collier is a successful attorney who’s spent her entire adult life trying to push away the violent event that nearly destroyed her two decades earlier.
But suddenly she has no choice …Ī woman’s traumatic past creeps insidiously into the present in this gripping thriller from Karin Slaughter. The only person who can help her is her younger, estranged sister Callie, the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help. If she can’t get him acquitted, she’ll lose much more than the case. More to the point, he knows what happened twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades running. But when she meets the accused, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s chosen her as his attorney. It’s the highest profile case she’s ever been given-a case which could transform her career, if she wins. Then a case lands on her desk-defending a wealthy man accused of rape. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she’d always hoped it would be.īut Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence.
Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone thriller