THE LAST MESSAGE

Mara Ellison has spent three years trying to forget the night her younger sister vanished. She remembers the blood on the kitchen tiles, the shattered mirror, and the last words her sister whispered before disappearing into the dark. What she cannot remember is what happened during the eleven minutes missing from her memory. Now thirty two, Mara works as a forensic transcriptionist in Blackridge, a city where people hide behind locked doors and polite smiles. She has built her life around one rule: never trust a memory she cannot prove. Then a sealed envelope arrives at her apartment. Inside is a photograph of Mara standing over a dead woman she has never seen before. On the back, someone has written a date that has not happened yet. Tomorrow. When the woman in the photograph turns up alive and identifies Mara as the person who saved her from an attempted murder, Mara begins to question everything she knows about herself. Her therapist insists that the images in her mind are symptoms of unresolved trauma. A detective investigating the photograph believes someone is manipulating her. And a voice on an old recording keeps repeating a sentence Mara remembers hearing on the night her sister vanished. You were the one who locked the door. As the past begins bleeding into the present, Mara must uncover the truth before tomorrow arrives. But the most dangerous secret may not be what happened to her sister. It may be what Mara did afterward.