Kimberly McCreight's taut and profoundly moving novel unwinds the tangled truth behind a tragedy, revealing that three women have far more in common than they could ever have imagined: that the very worst crimes are committed against those we love.

Kate learns that her daughter, Amelia, has been suspended from school. Upon her arrival, she finds the school surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump.