The House in the Pines

An instant New York Times bestseller! ΓÇ£This is an absolute,canΓÇÖt-put-it-down thriller. . . . ItΓÇÖs truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapterΓÇöwhich I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöReese Witherspoon (ReeseΓÇÖs Book Club Pick January 2023) Armed with only hazy memoriesa woman who long ago witnessed her friendΓÇÖs suddenmysterious deathand has since spent her life trying to forgetsets out to track down answers. What she uncoversdeep in the woodsis hardly to be believed. . . . Maya was a high school senior when her best friendAubreydropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom theyΓÇÖd been spending time with all summer. Seven years laterMaya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years agothe gaps in her memoriesand the lost time that she canΓÇÖt account for. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her lifeMaya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summerΓÇöthe influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey. At her motherΓÇÖs houseshe excavates fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan fatherΓÇÖs book that didnΓÇÖt stand out to her earlier. To save herselfshe must understand a story written before she was bornbut time keeps running outand soonall roads are leading back to FrankΓÇÖs cabin. . . . Utterly unique and captivatingThe House in the Pines keeps you guessing about whether we can ever fully confront the past and return home.