The Last Housewife

Shay Evans and her closest friends encountered an alluring guy while attending college in upstate New York. He captivated them with a web of falsehoods about how the world works and eventually had them under his sway. Shay and her buddy Laurel were the only ones who had escaped by their senior year. Eight years later, Shay has established a new life in a posh suburb of Texas. Laurel's favorite true-crime podcast crusader, of all people, delivers the horrific news of Laurel's death, and she starts to think that the history she thought she had buried is still very much alive and that the predators are more deadly than ever.

Shay returns to the location she pledged never to go back to in quest of answers, enlisting the podcast host's assistance. Following the strands of her friend's life draws her into a sinister and alluring world where privilege and luxury serve as a shield against harsh ideas that are all too familiar. Shay must face the depths of her own culpability and indoctrination when her passion with finding the truth consumes her to the point where she is unable to distinguish between her quest for justice and darker urges that have come back to life. Is justice really attainable in a society where males are meant to govern, both inside and outside of the cult, and if so, how far would Shay go to achieve it?

This dark thriller, written by the author of the critically acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, follows a woman who will stop at nothing to overthrow a strong cult and get revenge on those who killed the women it abducted.