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Book SynopsisA searing psychological thriller of trauma, dark academia, complicity, and revenge, revealing the horrors that happen in the dark, the girls who become cautionary tales, and the guilty who go unpunished. Until now. "A smart, dark, feminist revenge thriller" pHEAT MAGAZINE Barnes & Noble Thriller of the month Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay. 1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small, prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. They're the painters: bright, hopeful, teeming with potential. But secrets and dark ambitions rise like smoke from a campfire, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed. 2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protégé's remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. He knows Audra is beautiful and brilliant. He knows being invited into her private world is a rare gift. But he doesn't know that Audra has engineered every aspect of their weekend together. Every detail, every conversation. Audra has woven the perfect web. Only Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Max's secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it won't be easy, Audra knows someone must pay.
Trade Review"Katie Lattari writes as if she were one part journalist, one part historian, one part poet, one part comic, another part memoirist-but always a seer, staging... an exceedingly fresh, and ultimately poignant depiction of what it is to be alive today.";Steve Tomasula ;;"With whimsy, with impact, with grace, with distinctive characters and Voices, Katie Lattari has written a doozy of a debut. Fans of Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and David Foster Wallace take note.";Michael T. Fournier;;
