Stone the Dead Crows

Rose has recently married Nathan Winter, a surgeon, and on the surface her life lacks nothing. The one thing missing is her sister Daisy, who remains in a hospital coma and cannot respond. Daisy's psychologist has been a steady presence at her bedside, but his attention has shifted to Rose, and he suddenly insists that Nathan is a psychopath and that Rose is in danger.

Rose dismisses the claim, and she has reasons to. She has already lived through one psychopath, a first husband whose true nature turned deadly roughly a year into their marriage, and Nathan does not resemble him. Normally she would turn to her sisters for advice, but Maggie lives far away and Daisy is not improving.

As Daisy keeps fighting, the psychologist's fixation on Rose's marriage deepens, and Rose is pulled between two men who each seem to be following their own warped path, both with doubtful motives. Should she trust a stranger consumed by obsession, or the husband who has given her everything she has wanted? With the marriage now a year old, she must face the possibility that Nathan's nature is about to take a deadly turn.

The author has previously written When He's Not Here.