Only If You’re Lucky

A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic,addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margotwho meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy onethe careful onealways the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out at the end of the yeara year Margot spent studying and playing it safeand asks her to room togethersomething in Margot can’t say noΓÇösomething daringor starvedor maybe even envious. And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girlsLucythe ringleader; Sloanethe sarcastic one; and Nicolethe nice onethe three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. It’s a year that finds Margot finally coming out of the shell she’s been in since the end of high schoolwhen her best friend Eliza died three weeks after graduation. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friendsbut by the middle of their sophomore yearone of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace. From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belongingabout loyaltyenvyand betrayalΓÇöanother gripping novel from an author quickly becoming the gold standard in psychological suspense.