![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Madeleine Milburn, Madeleine Milburn Literary (U.K.). Fans of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers will want to check this out. Natalie has not heard from Kit since she went to Wisewood, a self-improvement retreat on an island off the coast of Maine. Natalie Collins is hard-working career woman who goes in search of her sister Kit after receiving a threatening email. Some of Houdini’s mentalist feats play a significant role as the action builds to final bombshell revelations. This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel is a captivating mystery featuring two slightly estranged sisters. Atmospheric details include the January wind that “shrieks like a woman being stabbed,” an abandoned schoolhouse in a forest, and a haunting initiation sequence. Kit has retreated there to “inward focus” through a self-improvement program to realize a “maximized self.” When Natalie races to the isolated island compound, she discovers a life-sucking cult guided by a guy his acolytes call the Teacher. Six months after Natalie last had any word from Kit, she suddenly receives an anonymous threatening email from the Wisewood Wellness & Therapy Center in Rockland, Maine. Natalie Collins, an executive at a Boston branding agency, and Kit Collins, a receptionist at a Brooklyn accounting firm, are both wrestling with guilt, anger, fear, and the horrible “barnacle” of loneliness after their mother’s death. ![]() This outstanding psychological thriller from Wrobel ( Darling Rose Gold) centers on two estranged sisters. ![]()
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