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Deb Caletti
Clara Oates has had boyfriend trouble all her life. The last one was lazy. This one is something else.

Christian is obsessed with her. First through the phone—he would never stop calling—then, he turned into a stalker. Clara begins to fear for her life.

Together, Clara and her father—a “smart-ass” crime writer, in her words—take a summer vacation to a small town called Bishop Rock. No
one from their home knows where they have gone, which is the point, but now Clara struggles with feelings of separation from familiarity and cannot escape her fear.

She also begins to question her own goodness in the relationship. She admits to herself, “It can feel good to make someone lose all control.”

But even in out-of-the way Bishop Rock, Clara may not have escaped Christian’s control….