In the opening pages of Marshall\u2019s terrific\u2014and terrifying\u2014new thriller, Theodora Scott is on her way meet her fiance\u2019s wealthy family. Having met and fallen for Connor Dalton at a friend\u2019s party a mere six months earlier, Theo is ready to give love a chance. First, though, she has to navigate meeting his family at Idlewood, their isolated mountain retreat. As a rule, she learns, non\u2013family members are not permitted apart from a handful of employees and a few locals who have special permission during hunting season. This delicious setup is promisingly sinister enough but, as Theo\u2019s narration continues, it becomes clear that she has secrets of her own to keep: Some of that has to do with her earlier life as a child who was adopted by a fundamentalist religious couple, Beth and Joseph; some of it has to do with anonymous messages she\u2019s been receiving, warning her to stay away from Connor. As the family gathering progresses, Theo survives the domesticity of \u201cpie day\u201d and a grilling by Connor\u2019s sister, mother, and grandmother. Later, she also survives a far less domestic hunting session (and just as much of a grilling) with Connor\u2019s grandfather. But it\u2019s what Theo discovers when she snoops around an abandoned cabin in the family compound that threatens to blow everything she knew\u2014and didn\u2019t know\u2014about herself wide open. Theo has always had vague, dreamlike, and splintered memories of her pre-adoption life\u2014she was only 4 when she came to live with Beth and Joseph. But when her cabin exploration turns up an old photograph of herself as a child at Idlewild, that\u2019s when Theo\u2019s real-life (read: life-threatening) nightmare really begins.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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