An instant New York Times bestseller!This is an absolute can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . .
It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the
perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick
January 2023)Armed with only hazy memories a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden
mysterious death and has since spent her life trying to forget sets out to track down
answers. What she uncovers deep in the woods is hardly to be believed. . . .Maya was a high
school senior when her best friend Aubrey dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named
Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later Maya lives in Boston
with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with
what happened years ago the gaps in her memories and the lost time that she can’t 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 life Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown
to relive that fateful summer—the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy
that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey. At her mother’s house she excavates
fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan father’s book that
didn’t stand out to her earlier. To save herself she must understand a story written before
she was born but time keeps running out and soon all roads are leading back to Frank’s
cabin. . . . Utterly unique and captivating The House in the Pines keeps you guessing about
whether we can ever fully confront the past and return home.
