Love You To Death
A Novel
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
When two best friends’ hobby of crashing weddings takes a deadly turn, they’re forced to embark on a road trip of survival in this addictive thriller.
“The hairpin turns and killer twists of this propulsive bad-girls-gone-worse thriller will have you hanging on for dear life!”—Layne Fargo, bestselling author of The Favorites and They Never Learn
How well do we really know our friends?
As the only Black women at an antebellum-themed wedding, Kayla and Zorie should’ve known this heist was doomed from the start. They should never have come, but when their financial situation became dire, they agreed to hit one last wedding.
Jaded and cynical Kayla has spent the last decade trying to fix her life since an angsty teen prank led to her arrest. Now, with her housekeeping job at a subpar hotel and her disappointing, Cinderella-esque relationship with her dad and obnoxious stepsister, she hates the life she’s built. Her only bright spots are her best friend, Zorie, and their favorite weekend pastime of crashing weddings to steal the money and pawn the gifts. But what started as a lark has evolved into a greedy obsession, making each wedding haul riskier than the last.
While trying to avoid the angry bride and groom, Kayla and Zorie’s getaway takes a gruesome turn and suddenly the “Wedding Crasher Killers” are national news. The best friends are forced to hit the road to dodge the authorities, but their escape plan leaves behind a bloody trail of destruction from Georgia all the way to the bayou. As past grudges resurface, Kayla realizes that the best friend she thought she knew is more dangerous than she could ever have realized.
Sharp, unpredictable, and madcap from start to finish, Love You to Death is the most fun—and deadly—road trip you’ll ever take.
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Twenty-somethings embark on a cross-country crime spree in Dotson's gleefully unhinged debut. Kayla Davenport dismisses everyone's claims that her best friend and roommate, Zorie Andrews, is a bad influence. After all, it was Kayla's petty prank that landed them in jail a few years back—never mind that Zorie egged her on. On weekends, the women supplement their meager hotel housekeeping wages by crashing strangers' weddings and stealing from the gift table. Their scheme seems foolproof, until they fail to blend in as the only Black guests at an antebellum-themed reception and Zorie accidentally kills a bridesmaid while fleeing the scene. Since Georgia has the death penalty, the panicked duo hits the road. Kayla's hopes of maintaining a low profile vanish when Zorie commits armed robbery to score supplies. Tempers flare between the two as a nationwide manhunt commences, testing their ride-or-die bond. Dark humor and hints of horror season the madcap, noir-tinged action, with Dotson pushing her Thelma and Louise setup to deliciously absurd extremes. For all the high-stakes action, though, it's the shifting dynamics of Kayla and Zorie's thorny relationship that keeps the pages turning. This is criminally good.
