"Emilia has a dream life. But someone knows the truth ... Emilia Ward lives in suburban London with her husband, their young son, and a teenager from her first marriage. Emilia is an ordinary mom - and she's also the bestselling author of the Miranda Moody detective novels. But when writing her tenth - and most difficult - book, life takes a disturbing an incident mimicking the plot of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence, right? Until it happens again. And again. Then someone she knows dies in the same way as a victim in the book she's currently writing. Why is someone doing this? What do they want? How could they possibly know what she's thinking - and writing? Is Emilia and her family next?"--Back cover.

"Originally published in 2023 in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK."--Title page verso. Originally published in standard print format: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.