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**June, 1975.** The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. What she doesn't know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it's not another horror novel he wants her to write. After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.
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- Author
- Julie Clark
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks Landmark
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781464221286
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Julie Clark was born and raised in Santa Monica, California, where she grew up reading books on the beach while everyone else surfed. After attending college at University of the Pacific, she returned home to Santa Monica to teach. Julie is the *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Last Flight*, which has earned starred reviews from *Kirkus*, *Publishers Weekly*, and *Library Journal*, and the *New York Times* has called it “thoroughly absorbing.” It’s been named an Indie Next Pick, a *Library Reads* Pick, and a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon Editors and Apple Books. Her debut novel, *The Ones We Choose* (2018), has been optioned for television by Lionsgate. Her most recent novel is *The
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