New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co. (January 16, 2024)

Hardback.

New in dust jacket.

Donna Tartt meets David Lynch in the haunting, lushly layered world of the Bird sisters, where those closest may be the ones you can trust the least.

She wakes up from a coma, confused, terrified, with no memory of who she is, not even her own name. The first thing she sees is her mirror image—her sister, her mirror twin, the only certainty she still has, the one person she trusts as implicitly as she trusts herself, and she says her sister’s name: “hello, Jude.”

In the months that follow, Jude slowly gives her back her life, returning her name to her—Kat Bird—and telling her their shared life story, rebuilding her memory block by block by block, remaking Kat into the person she was before.

Until Kat discovers that everything Jude has told her is a lie.

Abbott Kahler, previously writing as Karen Abbott, is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, American Rose, and Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon. Her most recent book, The Ghosts of Eden Park, was an instant New York Times bestseller, an Edgar Award finalist for best fact crime, an Indie Next pick, an Amazon best book of 2019, and a Smithsonian Magazine top ten history book of 2019. She has written for newyorker.com, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications, and has appeared on the History Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, AMC's "Making of the Mob," the Travel Channel's "Monumental Mysteries," and the Discovery Channel.