The Only One Left

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Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller featuring a young caregiver assigned to a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. In 1929, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast, with seventeen-year-old Lenora Hope at the center of the tragedy. Although many believe she was responsible, the police could never prove it. Lenora has remained silent about that fateful night and has not left Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the events unfolded. Now in 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at the decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora, who is in her seventies, wheelchair-bound, and mute from strokes. Lenora communicates by tapping out messages on an old typewriter. One night, she offers a tantalizing statement: "I want to tell you everything." As Kit assists Lenora in recounting the events leading to the massacre, it becomes evident that the story is more complex than it seems. When new information about her predecessor's sudden departure emerges, Kit begins to suspect that Lenora may not be telling the whole truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she initially thought.