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Two best friends. One dead girl. Two sides of the story. This is the story of Viola, and what happened before she killed Syl. She may be a killer, but she has something important to say. This is the story of Syl, and what led to her death. Syl may be dead, but she isn't gone. Yet. Viola and Syl were like sisters of different mothers. Born on the same day, neighbors from day one. The same schools, the same friends, the same lives. Nobody ever thought that these girls could be torn apart. Until it happened. Two weeks before Syl is supposed to leave for Stanford and Viola is ready for her new life in Princeton, Syl's body is found on the passenger seat of Viola's abandoned car. And Viola is gone. The only evidence found at the scene leads to Viola. Was she really responsible for her best friend's death? Or are there other things at play? Two versions of the story unfold, told from both Syl's and Viola's point of views in this unique turnaround book. The reader decides which version to read first, and which one to believe. Or not.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.