Named a Most Anticipated 2021 Summer Thriller by SheReads

"Grabs you by the throat and never lets go...with a twist you'll never see coming."   
-Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

"Sounds like Wonder Boys times Patricia Highsmith. Yes please!"-Crime Reads 
When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own-only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request.   
After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman.    
There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his...