About This Book
Marissa and Matthew Bishop have the kind of marriage that looks flawless from the outside — the beautiful home, the successful careers, the picture-perfect family. Then Marissa makes a choice that cracks everything open, and the couple turns to Avery Chambers, a therapist operating without a license and without apology. What unfolds is a tightly wound psychological thriller about desire, deception, and the dangerous gap between the life a couple presents to the world and the one they actually live behind closed doors.
Hendricks and Pekkanen are masters of the split-perspective structure, rotating between Marissa, Matthew, and Avery in ways that constantly reframe what you think you know. Each chapter ends just a beat before you're ready for it to, and the authors have a particular gift for the slow-burn reveal — the kind where you suspect something is wrong long before you can name it. The prose is propulsive without being showy, and the therapist-as-unreliable-narrator device keeps the tension coiled throughout. It's the sort of book that makes an ordinary Tuesday evening disappear.
