Can you ever really say you know your parents? Their hopes and dreams? Their past? Their memories? What if there was a defining moment, a trauma, that marked a before and after for not just them but a whole town? Would you be able to unwrap fact from fiction, especially when your own dad is at the center?

Olivia is a ghostwriter by trade. An unfortunate (and not untrue) soundbite and subsequent Twitter rant puts her on the wrong end of publicity and she’s forced to choose a job she wouldn’t want to touch with a 10-foot pole. Her estranged father requests her as a ghostwriter for his latest novel. Only it’s not a novel, it’s a memoir. It’s THE memoir. Where he tells the story of what happened the night his younger sister and older brother were murdered. Caught between doing her job and unraveling the lies of her father, Olivia has to decide if she is ready to expose her former life with her father and the possibility that he’s a murderer. What she uncovers is more than the story, it’s her history. 

I can already tell this is going to be one of the ones that stay inside my head for a long time. The narratives and perspectives, all the way to the last pages weave the entire story together. I am left wondering how many times I couldn’t get out of my own head and believed a narrative that didn’t fit reality. How many times was I the villain in someone else’s story? And in my own? Despite not being entirely based on a real story, this has the element of reality in it. I thought I’d figured it out several times, and I’m happy to say I was complies wrong. It’s a complex ending for a complex story. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up June 3 when it hits bookshelves! 

Thank you to SOURCEBOOKS Landmark | Sourcebooks Landmark for providing this ARC for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.