The It Girl

by Ruth Ware

but the quiet midweek lulls when she is—not alone, exactly, for you’re never alone in a room filled with a thousand books. But when she is alone with the books. Christie. The Brontës. Sayers. Mitford. Dickens. These are the people who got her through the years after April’s death.

In books, a bad thing might happen on page 207, that was true. But it would always happen on page 207, no matter what. And when you reread, you could see it coming, watch out for the signs, prepare yourself.