Rowan Ashby
Rowan Ashby
They cut the C in half. Neither of them thought that was a metaphor. Sloane Petrakis earned the captaincy. Ben Aldridge was promised it. Now they split a season, a locker room, and a team that can't decide which of them to follow. The rule was simple: nothing off the ice. No favors, no forgiveness, no feelings that could be mistaken for either. Then the athletic department assigns them to coach a youth clinic together twice a week, and eleven-year-olds don't care about their rivalry. They just want a team that works. By February, Ridgeport is one scandal and one brawl away from losing the co-ed pilot for good - and Sloane and Ben are the only two people who can save it, or the only two who can end it. They played the whole season against each other. They'll finish it side by side.
Five years ago, Fern and Ivy swapped lives for one weekend. They were twenty-four, identical, bored. Fern went to Lisbon with Ivy's passport. Ivy stayed home in Fern's apartment with Fern's cat and Fern's boyfriend. It was a prank. It was supposed to last three days. Neither of them swapped back cleanly. Now Fern is living Ivy's life - Ivy's house, Ivy's husband, Ivy's studio, Ivy's debts. She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself Ivy will come home. Then the police call. A woman has fallen from a balcony in Lisbon. The body is Fern's. And Fern remembers dying. A brand new totally addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist.
Sechs Jahre ist Calla Bray verheiratet und hat noch nie einen eigenen Schlüssel für ihre Haustür besessen. Daniel schließt auf. Er weiß auch, wie lange sie duscht, was sie einkauft und mit welchen ihrer Freundinnen sie schreibt. Also hat Calla ein zweites Leben in ihrem ersten aufgebaut. Ein Notizbuch, versteckt in einem Kochbuch. Ein Wegwerfhandy. Ein Bankkonto, das niemand je gesehen hat. Dann entdeckt sie eine Kamera im Rauchmelder und hrt auf, sich zu verstecken. Sie beginnt zu spielen. Sie testet ihn mit einem gepackten Koffer, einem gefälschten Rezept, einem Nachbarn, der sie anlächelt. Jeder Test wird beobachtet. Jede Reaktion wird aufgezeichnet. Als Daniel begreift, dass seine Frau sechs Jahre lang nicht unter seiner Kamera gelebt hat, sondern dahinter, hat die Polizei das Material bereits. Und Calla besitzt den einzigen Schlüssel, den sie je haben wollte.
Calla Bray has been married for six years and has never had a key to her own front door. Daniel unlocks it for her. He also knows how long she showers, what she buys, and which of her friends she has been messaging. So Calla built a second life inside the first. A notebook hidden in a cookbook. A burner phone. A bank account nobody has ever seen. Then she finds a camera in the smoke detector, and she stops hiding. She starts performing. She tests him with a packed suitcase, a fake prescription, a neighbour who smiles at her. Every test is being watched. Every reaction is being recorded. By the time Daniel realises his wife has not been living under his camera for six years but behind it, the police will already have the footage. And Calla will have the only key she has ever wanted.