The Fourteenth Guest

Thirteen guests. One dead host. And a fourteenth person no one remembers the same way.When memory expert Nora Vance accepts an invitation to Blackwater House from legendary psychologist Sebastian Thorne, she expects an unusual weekend of professional debate. Instead, she discovers thirteen strangers who were each lured there for a different reason-and evidence that all of them were together once before.Seventeen years ago.At the Ashbury Hotel.On the night of a fire that never happened.Before Nora can understand why none of them remembers the same event, Thorne is found dead. Then the house begins turning their own memories against them. Old photographs surface. Confessions appear in their handwriting. A woman everyone believed died in a car accident becomes the center of a far darker mystery. And one terrifying question begins to matter more than all the others: Who was the man with blood on his sleeve?As another guest dies and someone begins recreating the unfinished sequence of Thorne's original experiment, Nora realizes the killer isn't simply hiding what happened at Ashbury.He is counting on them remembering it wrong.To survive Blackwater, Nora must do the one thing her entire career has taught her is dangerous: confront a past she cannot trust-and determine which truth is real before she becomes the final piece of an experiment that should have ended seventeen years ago.Because the most dangerous person at Blackwater House was never the guest who didn't belong.He was the one everyone trusted.The Fourteenth Guest is a dark, twist-filled psychological thriller about memory, manipulation, guilt, and the terrifying difference between what happened-and what we become certain happened.