The Carter family looks perfect from the outside.A mansion in the hills. A beautiful mother. Three stunning daughters. And Ethan Blackwood—the charming stepfather who seemed too good to be true.He was.While Margaret Carter planned charity galas and dreamed of renewing her vows, her husband was building a collection. Not of art or antiques.Of her daughters.SOPHIA was first. Twenty-one and desperate to feel special. He made her believe she was his soulmate. That the age difference didn't matter. That he would leave her mother when the time was right. For three years, she lived on those promises. Three years of hotel rooms, stolen kisses, and guilt that ate her alive.ISABELLA was second. Dumped and broken, she came home needing comfort. He gave her attention. Made her feel beautiful. Made her forget he was her stepfather. She told herself it was different with her. That what they had was real. That Sophia—if she even suspected—wouldn't understand.LILY was third. The youngest. The quietest. The one he'd been grooming since before it was legal. On her eighteenth birthday, he gave her a necklace and a kiss that changed everything. She fell completely. Wrote about him like he was a god. Believed their connection transcended the rules of the normal world.None of them knew about the others.Until Thanksgiving.One overheard conversation. One discovered text message. One terrible revelation.The three sisters confronted Ethan together, united for the first time in years. They demanded he leave. Threatened to tell their mother everything.He laughed.Because Ethan Blackwood is always ten steps ahead. He has videos. Recorded evidence of every affair. Every compromising moment. Every confession of love.If they expose him, he'll destroy them. Their reputations. Their futures. Their relationship with their mother.So the sisters make a plan.If they can't get rid of Ethan... they'll get rid of the one thing keeping him in power.Margaret has to die.But what they don't know is that someone else has been watching. Someone with cameras in places they never suspected. Someone who's been collecting evidence of their evidence.Someone who wants money. Or revenge. Or both.As winter closes in, the mansion becomes a pressure cooker of paranoia, jealousy, and desperation.Sophia is contacted by a detective who knows more than she should.Isabella is being blackmailed by an obsessed ex who has footage she can't explain.Lily is spiraling into obsession, convinced she can still make Ethan choose her.Margaret is starting to suspect the family she built is hiding something monstrous.And Ethan? He's playing them all like instruments in a symphony of destruction.Then Margaret falls.Down the marble staircase. Neck broken. Blood pooling on the floor.It looks like an accident.But the police don't believe in accidents.Detective Sarah Raines has been investigating Ethan for months. She knows his pattern. She knows what he does to families. And when she finds three daughters with three different stories and three sets of guilty eyes, she knows someone is lying.The question is: who pushed Margaret Carter?Was it Sophia, finally tired of carrying guilt?Was it Isabella, desperate to protect herself?Was it Lily, willing to do anything for Ethan's love?Was it Ethan himself, eliminating the only witness to his crimes?Or was it someone else entirely—someone who's been watching from the shadows all along?As the investigation tightens, the sisters turn on each other.Old jealousies surface. New betrayals cut deeper. The bond that should unite them becomes the weapon that destroys them.Because in a family built on secrets, the truth doesn't set you free.It buries you alive.From the author comes a dark psychological thriller that explores the devastating power of manipulation, the dangerous addiction of forbidden love, and the shocking things people will do when obsession masquerades as devotion.This is not a love story. This is a body count.⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This book contains taboo relationships, grooming, psychological manipulation, explicit content, blackmail, murder, and morally complex characters. Intended for mature readers 18+.If you devoured You, couldn't stop reading Big Little Lies, and stayed up all night with The Silent Patient, this twisted family thriller will consume you.