One Night: A Novel
By (Author) Georgina Cross
Random House USA Inc
Random House Inc
5th September 2023
United States
General
Fiction
Psychological thriller
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
813.6
Paperback
304
Width 132mm, Height 203mm
One night. That's all the time a family has to decide what to do with the man they believe murdered their daughter- Do they forgive him, or take justice into their own hands An electrifying novel by the author of Nanny Needed. . . The anonymous letters arrive in the mail, one by one- To find out what really happened to Meg, meet at this location. Don't tell anyone you're coming. In one night, you'll find out everything you need to know. Ten years after her murder, the letters tell Meghan's family exactly when and where to meet- a cliffside home on the Oregon coast. But on the night they're promised answers, the convicted killer-her high school boyfriend, Cal, who spent only ten years in prison for murder-is found unconscious in his car, slammed into a tree near the house where the family is sitting and waiting. Is he the one who invited them to gather As a storm rampages along the Pacific Northwest, the power cuts off and leaves the family with no chance of returning to the main road and finding help. So they drag Cal back to the house for the remainder of the night. How easy it would be to let him die and claim it was an accident. Or do they help him instead As the hours tick by, it becomes an excruciating choice. Half of the family wants to kill him. The other half wants him to regain consciousness so he can tell them what he knows. But if Cal wakes up, he might reveal that someone in the family knows more than they're letting on. And if that's the case, who is the real killer And are they already in the house
The author of Nanny Needed, The Stepdaughter, The Missing Woman, and The Niece, Georgina Cross worked as a journalist and then spent nine years in business development for an aerospace and defence contractor before joining the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce. She now writes full-time and lives in Alabama with her husband and their combined family of four sons.