
One secret. Eight cryptic words. Lifetimes of ruin. Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Who was his father if not the loving man Wayland knew? Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, Wayland makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and others in his town want to keep buried. With the help of two friends, Wayland searches for the truth. Together they uncover strange messages scribbled in his father's old books, a sinister history behind the town's most powerful family, and a bizarre tragedy possibly linked to Wayland's birth. Each revelation raises more questions and deepens Wayland's suspicions of everyone around him. Soon, he'll regret he ever found the note, trusted his friends, or believed in such a thing as the truth. I Am Not Who You Think I Am is an ingenious, addictive, and shattering tale of grief, obsession, and fate as eight words lead to lifetimes of ruin.
Author

Eric Rickstad is the New York Times and International bestselling author of the new acclaimed page-turner I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM. He also wrote The Canaan Crime Series—LIE IN WAIT, THE SILENT GIRLS, and THE NAMES OF DEAD GIRLS—as well as WHAT REMAINS OF HER. Each is a compulsively readable psychological thriller heralded as dark, disturbing, profound and heartbreaking. His first novel REAP was a New York Times noteworthy novel. Rickstad lives in Vermont.