Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt: She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery. He’s Mr. Big-Time Thriller Guy. She hates his guts. He thinks her name is Marcie (no matter how many times she’s told him otherwise.) But when they both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley, the Duchess of Death herself. That night, the weather turns, and the next morning Eleanor is gone. She vanished from a locked room, and Maggie has… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Parental abandonment recounted
- Anxiety & anxiety attacks
- Infidelity recounted (protagonist’s ex-partner cheated with her best friend)
- Emotional intimate partner abuse & gaslighting recounted
- Alcohol consumption
- Death of parents in a car accident recounted
- Attempted murder by an intimate partner by beating (secondary character)
- Near-death experience from falling off a cliff & long-term recovery from a serious shoulder injury recounted (protagonist
- Poisoning
- Arson
- Kidnapping
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