In this terrifying and seductive thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland explores the terrible past of an English professor and how it comes back to haunt her.
Elizabeth, who teaches English at a college, eagerly awaits the beginning of every semester to teach her creative writing seminar.
At least until she reads The Reckoning’s first chapter, which tells the story of a senior in high school who had an affair with her teacher.
For Elizabeth, it is the start of the end, but for anyone else, it would be the start of an amazing page-turner. She is aware of this tale. The fact that she experienced it all makes it familiar.
Her best friend Jocelyn was the girl in the story, and Elizabeth is aware of the story’s inevitable conclusion—the professor’s death. as it was she who killed him.
Elizabeth’s secret is about to be revealed, and someone is aware of what she did twenty years ago, but who is the mystery student sending in the chapters?
Elizabeth goes back to her homeland in Louisiana to try to learn more, but it quickly becomes evident that she cannot escape her past no matter how much time passes.