The Last Housewife
TikTok made me buy it! A pitch black thriller about a patriarchal cult, based on a true story
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
'Will haunt your dreams and change the way you view the world.' Julie Clark
A secret cult. An unsolved murder. How far would you go to discover the truth?
While at college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her friends met a man who seduced them with lies about the world and brought them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape.
Eight years later, Shay has built a new life. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel's death, she realises the past she thought she buried is still very much alive.
Shay goes back to the place to which she vowed never to return. As she follows the threads of Laurel's life, she's pulled once again into a dark, seductive world, where wealth and privilege shield brutal philosophies that feel all too familiar. And this time, there may be no turning back...
'I barely breathed through most of this engrossing story, so consider yourself warned.' Good Housekeeping
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this disturbing psychological thriller from Winstead (Fool Me Once), there's no hiding from the past for Shay Deroy, who has been running for eight years from the trauma she and her two closest friends at New York's Whitney College suffered at the hands of the charismatic older man who initially captivated them, then held them captive. Alarm bells sound for Shay, now a Dallas trophy wife, when she learns that her surviving bestie, gentle Laurel Hargrove, has been found hanging on the Whitney campus, eerily echoing the scene at other bestie Clem Jones's apparent suicide her senior year. Coincidence? True crime podcaster Jamie Knight, Shay's friend since childhood, doesn't think so—and he makes a public plea for her help investigating. Still feeling guilty about failing to protect Clem, Shay agrees to join forces with Jamie. Back at Whitney, she runs up against some of the same malevolent forces that seduced her before. Winstead offers insight into the masochistic psychology that can set up vulnerable women to be recruited into cults, but readers should be prepared for ugly scenes of self-harm, suicide, rape, and misogyny. This dark suspense novel may be too grim for some.
