New York Times bestselling author of Bright Young Women and Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll, delivers another twisty thriller helmed by a sharp and complex female lead in this page-turning, juicy, and darkly erotic novel.
The last time Faye Heron was in the Finger Lakes, she abruptly ended an intense, all-consuming relationship to move away and bask in the vapid warmth of Hollywood. On this most recent visit, her ex-boyfriend Henry drugs and kidnaps her.
When television producer and actress Faye Heron returns to her college town to attend the funeral of a former professor-turned-mentor, she never expected things to go this way. Sure, she assumed Henry might still be upset over the way things ended. Or maybe it was the fact that she wrote her most praised episode of TV about their dramatic relationship and brutal end, exposing it to the world? Regardless, she finds herself trapped in Henry’s isolated lakeside cabin, tangled up in a messy web of lies, manipulation, and a trail of tragic deaths. Nothing is as she left it all those years ago. And yet, being back with Henry somehow satisfies a part of herself that she has been yearning to reawaken since she last saw him. Helpless is an engrossing examination of power dynamics, shame, and magnetic attraction.
