The Last Session

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From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a white-knuckled locked-room thriller about a social worker who, after coming face-to-face with her dark past, must infiltrate a mysterious wellness center in the deserts of New Mexico.

When a catatonic woman shows up at the psychiatric unit, social worker Thea swears she knows her from somewhere. Shes shocked to discover the patient holds a link to a traumatic time in her past. Upon regaining lucidity, the patient claims she cant remember the horrific recent events that caused her brain to shut down. Theas at a lossespecially when the patient is ripped away from her as suddenly as she appeared.

Determined to find her, Thea follows a trail of clues to a remote center in Southwestern New Mexico, where a charismatic couple holds a controversial monthly retreat to uncover attendees romantic and sexual issues. Forced to participate in increasingly intimate exercises, Thea finds herself inching closer not only to her missing patient, but also to tantalizing answers about her harrowing past. However, time is running out, and if she stays for the last session, she too might lose her mindor worse.

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THE LAST SESSION is a dark thrill ride into the desert, as a social worker enters a New Mexico wellness center hoping to find a patient who vanished under mysterious circumstances. But doing so puts the protagonist on a terrifying collision with own shame, secrets, and trauma, and in her obsessive quest to save her patient, she must also save herself. Julia Bartz doesn't just write page turnersshe writes the kind that grip you from the first page and keep you reading late into the night. - Kirthana Ramisetti, author of The Other Lata

Dark and entertaining, THE LAST SESSION had me compulsively flipping pages. Julia Bartzs latest thriller explores the allure of wellness cults, the nature of trauma and healing, and all of the ways in which therapy can go wrong. If you enjoyed THE WRITING RETREAT as much as I did, you will love Bartzs latest as well! - Lauren Ling Brown, USA Today bestselling author of Society of Lies