Internationally bestselling author Marnie Elliott has built a career on carefully crafted stories--and one devastating secret.


When Marnie gathers her three oldest friends at a remote Tasmanian retreat to celebrate twenty-five years of friendship, a journalist is already closing in on the truth behind the books that made her famous. But before the scandal can break, Marnie vanishes without a trace.
As suspicion falls on the three women she left behind, decades of loyalty, resentment, and buried betrayals begin to surface. Sarah, Xanthea, and Poppy have shared Marnie's triumphs and failures since they were aspiring artists in the late 1990s. Now each of them has something to hide.
Moving between the past and present, the novel unravels the dark truth behind Marnie's meteoric rise, the lie that bound the four friends together, and the violent events that have haunted them ever since.
Because the greatest threat to Marnie was never the journalist uncovering her secret. It was someone who had been keeping it for twenty-five years--and waiting for the perfect moment to make her pay.