The Girl Who Came Before - Paperback

Tessa Grey captures other people's perfect moments while her own life blurs past in a haze of prescription bottles and quiet evenings alone. She has a cat who purrs when the mood strikes, a best friend with no filter, and a routine that feels comfortable. Safe. Forgettable.

Then she meets Adrian, and everything shifts.

Adrian Mercer is handsome and attentive. He remembers every detail Tessa shares; he makes her feel seen in a way she'd stopped believing was possible. Falling for Adrian isn't a choice. It's inevitable.

But when Tessa finds a crumpled note in Adrian's apartment with the name "Kate" scrawled across it, his dismissive shrug doesn't match the tension in his jaw. Then other reminders of Kate begin surfacing, and the more Adrian insists Kate's no one, the less Tessa believes him.

As Tessa pulls at the threads of Adrian's past, her carefully built life begins to unravel. She discovers Kate disappeared two years ago, and Adrian refuses to say what happened. His devotion feels so real, but the red flags keep mounting. And the closer Tessa gets to the truth, the more she realizes Kate's story didn't end two years ago. It might just be beginning again, this time with her.

THE GIRL WHO CAME BEFORE is the first installment of a duet. Blending slow-burn tension with twists that cut deep, this romance novel will appeal to readers who enjoyed Freida McFadden's The Housemaid and Colleen Hoover's Verity. The story ends on a cliffhanger, with the second book completing Tessa's journey (releasing soon).