Todos son sospechosos. Todos tienen algo que esconder. Pero alguien va a tener que responder por la muerte de su hija.
En una empobrecida zona de los montes Ozark, en Misuri, en un pueblo pequeño con grandes secretos, dos niñas de doce años aparecen asesinadas. Sin nada que perder y rota de dolor, Eve Taggert se lanza a averiguar qué le ocurrió realmente a su hija.
Eve conoce el lado oscuro de la vida. Su propia madre se encargó de enseñárselo. Una dura lección que ella ha tratado desesperadamente de evitar a su pequeña Junie. Pero, contra todos sus instintos, quizá Eve necesite recurrir a la cruel fortaleza que le inculcó su madre para afrontar la verdad sobre el crimen... y sobre su auténtica naturaleza.
Una historia poderosa y afilada sobre lazos familiares, sobre mujeres que luchan en circunstancias extremas y sobre cómo incluso los lugares más oscuros y aterradores pueden ofrecerte el refugio del hogar.
«Sin concesiones, feroz y brillante.»
The Guardian
«Desde el atrapante arranque al impactante final, nunca deja de fascinar con sus sorprendentes giros.»
Associated Press
Sobre la novela han dicho...
«Una escritura de una urgencia feroz.»
Publishers Weekly
«Un final deslumbrante.»
Booklist
«Un noir rural lleno de vueltas y giros... Atrapante.»
Hello Magazine
«¡Sí, sí y mil veces sí! Totalmente fabuloso.»
Larry, Goodreads
«Absorbente.»
Library Journal
«Una estremecedora historia de maternidad y crimen.»
CrimeReads
«Llega al corazón con su cruda verdad emocional.»
Daily Mail
«Absolutamente fantástico. Se me ocurren muchas palabras para describirlo: maravilloso, desgarrador, perfecto.»
Ellen, Goodreads
«De trama impecable... Fascinante.»
Shelf Awareness
«Te hiela el corazón.»
Metro
«Oscuro, inquietante, crudo, adictivo y con un final alucinante.»
Norma, Goodreads
«¡Para leer de una sentada! ¡Mucho más que un típico thriller!»
Wendy, Goodreads
“Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.”
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away.
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
As it weaves between Lane’s first Roanoke summer and her return, The Roanoke Girls shocks and tantalizes, twisting its way through revelation after mesmerizing revelation, exploring the secrets families keep and the fierce and terrible love that both binds them together and rips them apart.
Ivy Westfall is beyond the fence and she is alone. Abandoned by her family and separated from Bishop Lattimer, Ivy must find a way to survive on her own in a land filled with countless dangers, both human and natural. She has traded a more civilized type of cruelty-forced marriages and murder plots-for the bare-knuckled brutality required to survive outside Westfall's borders.
But there is hope beyond the fence, as well. And when Bishop reappears in Ivy's life, she must decide if returning to Westfall to take a final stand for what she believes is right is worth losing everything she's fought for.
What would you kill for?
After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the sons of the winning group in a yearly ritual.
This year, it is my turn.
My name is Ivy Westfall, and my mission is simple: to kill the president’s son—my soon-to-be husband—and return the Westfall family to power.
But Bishop Lattimer is either a very skilled actor or he’s not the cruel, heartless boy my family warned me to expect. He might even be the one person in this world who truly understands me. But there is no escape from my fate. I am the only one who can restore the Westfall legacy.
Because Bishop must die. And I must be the one to kill him…
