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Something is wrong with Nathan. Elena Carter knows this the way a careful woman knows things - quietly, precisely. At first there were slight hints: the phone face-down. The private laugh behind a door that isn't quite closed. The faint smell of something dark and floral that isn't hers. She doesn't say anything. That's the thing about Elena. She's very good at not saying anything. But someone has been watching Elena Carter for two years. Someone who knows the shape of her marriage better than she does, who has mapped every load-bearing wall, who chose her husband with the cold precision of a person who needed something broken and knew exactly where to apply the pressure. Someone who came to destroy her - and who has, somewhere in the long act of studying her closely enough to take her apart, made the mistake of finding out who she actually is.

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Caroline Bolland grew up in a house full of secrets and learned early that the most revealing thing about a person is not what they say but what they carefully don't. She studied psychology at Boston University, worked briefly as a couples therapist, and then spent a decade creating her own literary pros, where she discovered that fiction was simply therapy with better sentences. Her novels live in the space where intimacy becomes dangerous - where the person who knows you best is also the one most capable of undoing you. She is drawn to women who have made themselves small in order to stay safe, and to the moment when that strategy stops working. She writes about marriage the way a surgeon works: with precision, without sentiment, and with a deep belief that the truth, however uncomfortable, is always more useful than the comfortable lie. Her psychological thrillers have been described as quietly devastating and the kind of book that makes you look at your own life a little differently on the train home. She lives in Boston. She is, her friends say, very good at reading a room. They mean it as a compliment. Mostly.

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