MAQ

Hazel Grant was the kind of girl everyone loved— brilliant, beautiful, kind. The girl teachers trusted. The girl boys adored. The girl no one believed could have enemies. Until she was found dead. As the town of Monterey mourns its golden girl, those closest to her begin to reveal fractured truths, buried resentments, and dangerous secrets they never intended to share. Her boyfriend insists he loved her. Her best friend insists she was loyal. Her classmates insist she was perfect. But perfection has a cost. As Detective Isabelle Ryah investigates the case, the murder mirrors the unresolved death of her own sister years earlier, forcing her to confront a past she never escaped. Meanwhile, Hazel’s voice emerges from the shadows, revealing a life shaped by abuse, silence, sacrifice, and the desperate need to survive. Each narrator swears the same thing: I did not kill Hazel Grant. But when everyone is hiding something, innocence becomes impossible to prove.

Madison Blake fixes scandals for a living. She knows exactly how reputations are destroyed. How secrets leak. How one bad decision can ruin everything. So sleeping with Jack Sinclair should have been a mistake she could walk away from. Except...he isn't. Jack is powerful. Addictive. And dangerously good at making promises he has no intention of keeping. By the time Madison realizes what she’s stepped into, it’s already too late. The man who pulls her out of traffic that night is the last person she expects to see again. Liam Knox. Cold. Controlled. And not nearly as new to her story as he should be. When Madison's professional world collides with her personal one, Liam re-enters her life with devastating consequences. Old secrets unravel. Loyalties fracture. And Madison, the woman who built her entire career on controlling the narrative, finds herself completely unable to control her own. One man is everything she thought she wanted. One man is everything she never escaped. And both of them are about to blow her life wide open.