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The Locked Ward

by Sarah Pekkanen

A twin sister’s plea, a family murder charge

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    By a #1 New York Times bestselling author

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    Praise from Jeneva Rose: “will leave you guessing until the very end”

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A twin sister’s plea, a family murder charge

Georgia Cartwright, adopted into a wealthy Southern family, is accused of killing the family’s biological daughter and held in a psychiatric institution while awaiting trial. When her estranged twin, Amanda, visits, Georgia insists she is innocent and asks to be freed. The accusation turns the sisters’ already complicated bond into the novel’s central pressure point, while competing explanations—jealousy, rivalry, family wrongdoing, or manipulation—leave Amanda uncertain about whom to trust. The domestic thriller frames its mystery around sisterhood and the possibility that the truth about Georgia may be harder to untangle than the charge against her.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers of domestic psychological thrillers centered on family conflict and suspicion.
  • For readers interested in stories about twin sisters, adoption, and questions of trust.

Themes

Sisterhood and sibling rivalryAdoption and family belongingAccusation, trust, and manipulationJealousy and family secrets

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Book overview

New from Sarah Pekkanen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Glass and co-author of The Wife Between Us.

A shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood―and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point, The Locked Ward "will leave you guessing until the very end" (Jeneva Rose, bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage).

Some doors should never be opened.

Was it bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity?

Whatever the cause―and everyone has a theory―it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family.

Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, "I didn't do it. You've got to get me out of here."

Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator?

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