On a bitter January evening, three people are found murdered in the isolated Blackbird hotel. Best friends since childhood, Eric, Rory and Celia have always been inseparable. Together they've coped with broken homes and damaged families, clinging to each other as they've navigated their tenuous lives. Their bond is potent and passionate--and its intensity can be volatile.
When the trio decides to follow Celia's dream of buying and renovating the Blackbird, a dilapidated hotel that sits on the perilous cliffs of Jawbone Ridge, new jealousies arise and long-held suspicions start to unravel their relationship. Soon they find themselves pushed to the breaking point, where trust becomes doubt, longing becomes obsession, and someone will commit the ultimate betrayal.
An unflinching story of ambition, desire and envy, The Undoing traces the events leading to that fateful night, revealing the intimate connections, dark secrets and terrible lies that wove them together--and tore them apart.
About the Author :
Averil Dean was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She left school at sixteen and went on to sell donuts, goldfish and power tools before answering the call of the cubicle, where she spent the next twenty years building up her tolerance for burnt coffee and the dot-matrix printer. She left this dream life in 2012 when she moved with her husband and the youngest of their three kids to Lacey, Washington and now devotes her time to writing and photography. Visit her at www.averildean.com
Review :
"Beautifully imagined and beautifully written, hypnotically suspenseful and truly chilling ... this is a very superior thriller." -#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child "[A] tour de force that peels back layer after dreadful layer from [Dean's] characters in a way that really does produce pity and terror." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Smart, gripping, and thoroughly absorbing. Dean's The Undoing had my brain twisted for hours." -New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Cain
"Averil Dean's The Undoing is a tense, suspenseful tale that pulls the reader down a twisted path to the spine-tingling conclusion." - New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf
"Dark and haunting... Unforgettable. The Undoingis a superb novel." -New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison
"[A] highly inventive, morbidly addictive, and poetically rich novel." -Washington Independent Review of Books
"Averil Dean is an engaging and intriguing writer... Once you've opened The Undoing, you'll be hooked." -Bookreporter.com
