WOMAN OF THE YEAR

From the New York Times bestselling author of ALL I WANT and A SIMPLE FAVOR comes a deliciously dark and twisty psychological suspense novel about female friendship--and revenge.

Twenty years ago, promising student Lorelei Green and her mousy classmate Holly Serpenta became friends in their college psychology seminar, taught by an expert in control and human behavior. As the relationship between Lorelei, Holly, and their professor became more complex, a tragedy happened to Lorelei. Her beloved tabby cat went missing--and Lorelei insisted he was stolen and swapped with a near-identical replacement, and Holly is the only one who could have done it. But nobody believed her story--a tabby was, afterall, alive and well in her apartment-- and with this one twisted moment of gaslighting, Lorelei's life fell apart.

Now in their forties, Lorelei still mourns "the cat who got away" and lives an isolated existence. Meanwhile, Holly has everything Lorelei once wanted--in fact, she's being named "Woman of the Year" in a ceremony presided over by Gloria Steinem, no less. The ceremony presents a moment of revenge for Lorelei: finally she can stick it to Holly via her non-fatal nut allergy and move on with her life. But someone else has been keeping close tabs on Holly, too, and has come to the ceremony with an even more sinister plot. When Holly ends up dead, Lorelei is left wondering who hated her ex-friend as much as she did--and if she might be in danger, too... Lorelei must look to her painful past to find out what happened to her former friend and protect herself.

Darcey Bell is the New York Times bestselling author of ALL I WANT, SOMETHING SHE'S NOT TELLING US, and A SIMPLE FAVOR, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Paul Feig and starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.