The Spare Key to Her

By Unsprouted Bean

“I never lock the door to keep you in. I lock it so the world outside can’t take you away.” At thirty-eight, Corinne Aldermere thought she had finally learned how to be alone. In the wake of a shattering divorce and deeply ingrained trauma from her past, she pieced herself back together and retreated to a secluded cliffside estate in Gull Harbor, Maine. All she wanted was quiet, the sound of the crashing waves, and her half-finished translation manuscripts. Then Emory Wolcott showed up. The twenty-three-year-old son of her best friend—once the quiet fifteen-year-old boy sitting silently at a funeral years ago—was now a towering man, infinitely attentive and gentle. He fixed her broken steps, brewed her chamomile tea exactly the way she liked it, and looked at her with the eyes of a man who had been patiently waiting for years. Beside Emory, beneath the stormy glow of the Maine coastline, Corinne felt truly desired, cherished, and healed for the very first time. Until she realized: Emory’s devotion extended far beyond simple caretaking. He knew her exact routines before she could even voice them. He appeared the moment she needed him, as if he had been standing by all along. And beneath his dazzling smile and flawless tenderness lay a carefully woven web of secrets—bound by a promise in Norwegian he had never forgotten: “Jeg kommer alltid til å finne deg.” (I will always find you.) A HAUNTING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT THE THIN LINE BETWEEN CONSUMING DEVOTION AND TWISTED OBSESSION. Perfect for fans of Verity by Colleen Hoover, YOU by Caroline Kepnes, and The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.