Late on a summer’s evening when they are 30 years old, Edward and Isabel’s home is invaded by a serial killer. Theirs was a classic story of young love that moves into true partnership --- but their solid foundation implodes in the wake of this violence. At 58, they are reunited for their tormentor’s trial and forced to confront their lifelong love affair: the secrets, passions and encounter that bind them still. Isabel has waited years for the man who nearly ended her life to be caught. She’s connected with other survivors and prepared for the moment that she’d get to read her victim impact statement aloud in court. Edward has spent the years since the break-in trying to figure out how a near-miss with death killed so much else in their shared life. What would revenge or justice feel like? Can closure set Isabel free? And what might that freedom mean for Edward?

A village hall, a primary school play, a beautiful Lake District town in England. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a train of events that will have devastating consequences for the close-knit community of Stonesmere. In the weeks following the cataclysm, conspiracy theorists start questioning what happened. Two young people find themselves at the epicenter of the uproar: Marty, the town’s golden girl and daughter of a teacher killed that day, and Trent, whose memories of his brief time trying to fit into Stonesmere fuel his attachment to the conspiracies. But what really happened at the Day One assembly? What secrets is Marty keeping, and what blindspots does Trent miss? In this world where news travels fast, and videos and gossip travel faster, how does a community move forward together?

Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. It's been easy enough to avoid her parents --- her father never made it out of the House of Horrors he created, and her mother spent the rest of her life behind bars. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can't run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the home into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her siblings --- and with the childhood they shared.