A Novel
B.A. Paris
Feb 17, 2026
Hardcover with dust jacket
Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic / Suspense
The multimillion-copy and New York Times bestseller B. A. Paris returns with a triumphant, unsettling new domestic suspense novel.
Who is watching Nell Masters?
Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise as she feels someone’s eyes on her as travels to work, random phone calls to her office come in with no one speaking on the other end of the line, and then a giant bouquet of flowers arrives with no card. And Nell has a reason to be looking over her shoulder, because she has a secret that that nobody in her life knows.
Fourteen years earlier, she went by her real name, Elle Nugent. She witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger’s car, and then heard on the news that Bryony was killed later that day and her body found in a park. Elle, the only witness, had become obsessed with finding the truth about the murder, and her fixation on one man who she believes was responsible led her down a dangerous path. But had she pointed the finger at the wrong person?
Now, having tried to put her past behind her, Nell tries to convince herself that this new, unnerving feeling of being watched is just her mind playing tricks on her. She relies on her new boyfriend Alexey for support, but Alexey has his own past and secrets too.
Has the stalker become the stalked . . . or is there something even more deadly at play?
Fourteen years earlier, she went by her real name, Elle Nugent. She witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger’s car, and then heard on the news that Bryony was killed later that day and her body found in a park. Elle, the only witness, had become obsessed with finding the truth about the murder, and her fixation on one man who she believes was responsible led her down a dangerous path. But had she pointed the finger at the wrong person?
Now, having tried to put her past behind her, Nell tries to convince herself that this new, unnerving feeling of being watched is just her mind playing tricks on her. She relies on her new boyfriend Alexey for support, but Alexey has his own past and secrets too.
Has the stalker become the stalked . . . or is there something even more deadly at play?
