The compulsive first novel from bestselling writer Julia Heaberlin is reissued with a commercial new look

'I never told anyone about the letters. It was another of my secrets, one that would . . . lead to places I don't want to go again.'

When Emily and her husband move to Clairmont, Texas, they believe that it's the perfect place to build a new life.

At a prestigious party, she meets a group of rich and influential housewives, but soon she begins to suspect that there is more to them than meets the eye.

Then local doyenne Caroline disappears and Emily receives a host of threatening letters. Is Emily's troubled past coming back to haunt her, or is something sinister happening in this peaceful town?