THE ROOMMATE'S SECRET

"The thing about killing your roommate is that everyone assumes it was the other way around."

Eileen Walsh knows how to let things go. Her sister's death. Her mother's silence. The rent she can't afford. She lets everything go — it's the only skill she has left.

So when the perfect roommate answers her ad, Eileen doesn't question it. Audrey Wu is clean, quiet, and pays in cash. She drinks chamomile every night. She sleeps at 9:00. She doesn't bring photographs.

But a mug keeps appearing on the wrong shelf. A bookmark moves in the night. And then Audrey reveals the truth: her name is Elise, she was Grace's best friend, and she's convinced that Eileen's mother is a murderer.

As the two women circle each other in a shrinking apartment, Eileen uncovers a web of guilt and forgiveness that stretches from a prison in New Jersey to a missing woman in Cambridge — a woman everyone thinks is dead, whose letters keep arriving with a handwriting that knows too much.

By the time Eileen understands who is really hunting her, she's standing in her kitchen with a choice she's been making her whole life without knowing it: hold on, or let go.

The Roommate's Secret is a devastating literary thriller about five women, five choices, and the wreckage that's left when love goes wrong.