DROWN ME OUT

A debut, page turning psychological thriller by a Faber Academy alumna.

Sage is haunted by a recurring nightmare. Lara, a young influencer, receives death threats. Both are inextricably linked by a tragic accident, but neither is ready to admit what really happened on the water last year.

Sage can't remember the accident. The one where she almost drowned. But she keeps having the same nightmare. Every night she watches a woman struggling under water and cannot do anything to save her. When she sees Lara in the local supermarket, she realises that the woman from her nightmare is real, and if she is real, then that must mean Lara is in danger.

Convinced she must save her, Sage inserts herself into the shadows of Lara's life, keeping track of her every move, but as the plan unfolds, not everything is what it seems, and Lara is hiding secrets of her own. Secrets which could unlock the missing pieces of memory and give Sage the answer to what really happened to her last year. Time is running out for Sage to stop her nightmares from becoming reality that is, if she still wants to.

Rhiannon Barnsley is a recent graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel Course and an avid reader of all things dark and twisted. She has a degree in law and is a practising solicitor. Rhiannon has already started her next novel, which follows two young, ambitious lawyers trying to gain access to an exclusive, female-only networking society with a peculiar membership policy: one in, one out. Everyone would kill to get in, and somebody already has.

DROWN ME OUT reminds its readers of novels such as PRECIOUS YOU by Helen Monks Takhar, I SEE YOU by Clare Mackintosh or THE OTHER PASSENGER by Louise Candlish. It also appeals to audiences who enjoyed Netflix's adaptation of YOU and BBC's new drama CHLOE.