Thank you to NetGalley and Del Rey Publishing for the digital review copy and the opportunity to be an early reader. This hits shelves today, October 28th.

Eve Shaw appraises paintings for an auction house. In 2015, on her 27th birthday, she receives an elderly visitor who thanks her as if they’ve met before, gifts her a small glass octopus, and tells her to please come back to the hotel. What hotel is he talking about? And why does this octopus look so eerily like the one tattooed on her thigh?

Lillian went to high school with Madison, until Lillian took the fall for Madison’s bad behavior and got expelled. For years they’ve kept in touch through letters, Lillian staying stagnant and not achieving much while Madison soared: prestigious college, married to a senator, etc.