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Sarah Strohmeyer explores the mother-daughter bond, our collective obsession with cults
and their charismatic leaders, and a protagonist with a stronger-than-usual connection to the other side.Stella O’Neill is just your average millennial, working at a public library and worrying about making
rent. No one would suspect she’s been living under an assumed name or that she was raised in a
Vermont commune of “diviners” where, as a ten-year-old, she witnessed her mother’s brutal
murder—a crime that has gone unsolved for years.
But her quiet, anonymous existence is upended when a true-crime obsessive posts her current name
and location on the internet. Now, Stella has to get out of Boston before her mother’s killer can find her
and finish the job he started all those years ago. Fed up with living in fear, she heads to the off-the-grid
retreat of her childhood to confront her mother’s unhinged guru who controlled their lives for so long--
the infamous Radcliffe MacBeath.
Stella has two powerful assets: determination and a supernatural gift. Relying on her mother’s beloved
rose quartz pendulum, Stella will have to outwit the charismatic leader who’s ruined so many lives and
discover once and for all the true identity of her mother's killer—before becoming his next victim.Sarah Strohmeyer is a bestselling and award-winning novelist whose
books include We Love to Entertain, Do I Know You?, The Secrets of Lily
Graves, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True, Smart Girls Get
What They Want, The Cinderella Pact (the basis of the Lifetime Original
Movie Lying to Be Perfect), The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, The Secret
Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sweet Love, and the Bubbles mystery series
(Bubbles Unbound won the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery). A
former newspaper reporter, her writing has appeared the Cleveland Plain
Dealer and the Boston Globe among other outlets. She lives with her
family in Vermont where she is the elected town clerk of the small town of
Middlesex. sarahstrohmeyer.com/
