I'LL BE YOU

A twisty new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Janelle Brown. Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apartuntil one disappears, and the other is forced to confront the secrets they've kept from each other.

As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: Gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn't even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other's breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role.

But as adults their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect suburban wife: Married to a real-estate lawyer, in a house two blocks from the beach. Meanwhile, Sam has never recovered from her failed Hollywood career, or from her addiction to the pills and booze that have propped her up for the last fifteen years.

Sam's destructive behavior drove the final wedge between the two. They haven't spoken in a year when their father calls out of the blue. Unbeknownst to Sam, Elli's life lately has been in turmoil: Her husband moved out, and Elli just adopted a two-year-old girl. Now she's checked in to a mysterious spa in Ojai, and has stopped answering her phone. As Sam works to connect the dots left by Elli's baffling disappearance, she realizes that the bond between her and her sister is more complicated than she ever knew.

This magnetic thriller from bestselling author Janelle Brown shows her writing at the top of her game: A story packed with twists and astounding revelations, about the secrets kept by the ones we think we know the best.


Janelle Brown is the author of PRETTY THINGS (April 2020), THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE (2010), and ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING (2008). An essayist and a journalist, she has written for Vogue, The New York Times, Elle, Wired, Self, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and numerous other publications. WATCH ME DISAPPEAR has been optioned for film by The Gotham Group, with Jeremy Podeswa (Game of Thrones, Handmaids Tale, Boardwalk Empire) officially attached to direct. Janelle is writing the screenplay under the supervision of Jonathan Tropper, who is also producing. PRETTY THINGS will be adapted into a series by Amazon, produced by and starring Nicole Kidman.