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1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small, prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. They're the painters: bright, hopeful, teeming with potential. But secrets and dark ambitions rise like smoke from a campfire, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed.

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2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protege's remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. He knows Audra is beautiful and brilliant. He knows being invited into her private world is a rare gift. But he doesn't know that Audra has engineered every aspect of their weekend together. Every detail, every conversation. Audra has woven the perfect web.

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Because only Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Max's secret, and the dark things that followed.

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A searing psychological thriller and gripping story of trauma, dark academia, complicity, and revenge, Dark Things I Adore unravels the realities behind campfire legends--the horrors that happen in the dark, the girls who become cautionary tales, and the guilty who go unpunished.

 

Until now.

Apple Books Pick of the Month (09/2021)

Barnes & Noble Mystery & Thriller Pick of the Month (07/2022)

Featured in the New York Times Book Review (09/2021)

Named a Publisher's Lunch Buzz Book (Fall/Winter 2021)

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