St. Martin's Press
May 2024
On Sale: April 23, 2024
352 pages ISBN: 125028452X EAN: 9781250284525 Kindle: B0C2MYN135 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth, comes a twisty new domestic suspense novel.
From the outside, Jackie, Claudia and Margo might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Claudia has a little OCD and Margo has some anger issues. And Jackie has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild, and they thought they were free. But the reach of someone with such power is long, and even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are called in by the police to tell what they know. Against their will, they are brought back to the past, and to Miss Fairchild herself. DARLING GIRLS asks the questions: what are we capable of when in a desperate place? How much can we hide the demons inside us? And can the past ever truly be buried?