The Sister She Buried: a gripping small-town psychological thriller with shocking, unforgettable twist

Some towns bury their secrets. Ember, Pennsylvania, is built over a fire that won't let them stay buried.Nora Keene comes home to a town the state is erasing. The coal seam under Ember has been burning for twenty-five years, smoke rising from cracks in the road, the ground giving way without warning - and Nora has come back only to bury the mother she hasn't spoken to in a lifetime.Then, the day she arrives, the ground opens on the old family land and gives up a set of human bones. And a local sixteen-year-old vanishes into the same unstable earth that swallowed Nora's little sister, June, twenty-five years before.Nora has spent her life recording other people's truths and burying her own. Now, as a sharp county detective circles and the town's most powerful family closes ranks, she starts pulling on a thread that runs straight back to the night June disappeared - the night everyone agreed never to speak of again.But the bones aren't who everyone thinks. The sister everyone buried was never in the ground. And the truth Nora has spent twenty-five years refusing to remember will detonate everything she believes about her family, her mother, and the night that made her who she is.The Sister She Buried is a slow-burn, gut-punch psychological thriller about the lies families tell to survive, the truths a town keeps to protect itself, and a twist that will make you turn straight back to page one.Perfect for readers of Riley Sager, Lisa Jewell, Shari Lapena, Alice Feeney, and Karin Slaughter."A shocking-but-fair twist you'll never see coming - and will see everywhere on a second read" "An unforgettable setting: a real-feeling town slowly consumed by an underground fire" "A single, unforgettable narrator and the buried memory that undoes her" "A mystery that pays off every clue, and an ending that lands like a blow"What did the ground in Ember keep down for twenty-five years - and what happens when the fire finally reaches it?Scroll up and one-click to find out.