Overview

• Hoover revealed the cover and synopsis on Sept. 10 in an exclusive TODAY clip and thanked readers for their patience.
• The novel will be released by Amazon Publishing, and preorders are open.
• Hoover called the book “probably one of the darkest” she has written, marking her first new release since Too Late in 2023.
• The plot centers on Petra Rose, an embattled author who retreats to a lakeside cabin and finds a volatile muse in Detective Nathaniel Saint as fiction and reality blur.
• Coverage notes meta parallels to Hoover’s recent controversies over adaptations, contextualized by her BookTok-fueled success that included 8.6 million print sales in 2022.