BEFORE NOW

A harrowing and heartbreaking standalone romance expertly told with a reverse timeline, Before Now is another emotional charged novel from suspense author Norah Olson about a young couple who run headlong into tragedy while trying to escape their complicated pasts.

The odds were against them, but somehow Atty and Cole managed to defy the cruel set of circumstances that threatened to steal them away from each other. They escaped their old lives in the rough neighborhoods of Minneapolis and the judgmental eyes of their parents, who could not let their differences go long enough to see that Atty and Cole were meant to be.

But they do not get away clean. Eventually the betrayals and mistakes from their pasts catch up to them. Then the unthinkable becomes reality and the future is instantly unwritten.

Through Atty's journal, all the intimate details of her tragic romance with Cole unfold from finish to start, including the mystery of what brought them together — and tore them apart.

Norah Olson is the author of What the Dead Want and Twisted Fate, and a former journalist who covered criminal cases for a regional New York newspaper. She was educated in New England and lives in Manhattan.