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A decades-old secret that drove a mother from her hometown now threatens her college-bound daughter in this twisty new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda.

Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Her roots there were strong: Beckett’s parents taught at the college, and she never even imagined studying anywhere else—until a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again…

For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to keep her distance. Then her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, and Beckett can only hope that her lingering fears are unfounded. But deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that the past isn’t the only dangerous thing in town…

I previously read this as an arc and I loved it!
posting my thoughts just in case anyone wants to chat!

Through Part 1 : The Stillness / 20%

(view spoiler)[ hmmm. . .interesting beginning. This howling and them running through the forest sounds fun but sucks it ended one night in a fire. Clearly, she's hiding something.
I wonder if the friend is alive?

and now Delilah, her daughter goes there. what could the phone call mean? they can't honestly still be doing howling nights right? yikes?
so is someone messing with her that is actually with her daughter or are they messing with the display to make it look like its from her daughter

and what's this memoir request? Could this be the old friend?
hmmm (hide spoiler)]

Through Part 2: The Howling / 59%

(view spoiler)[ wow, she had really good instincts. Her daughter really was missing.

but her story doesn't add up, right? I worry they will find her phone in the tunnels somewhere.

so we know someone wrote menacing messages on her walls in her room. We know someone else was possibly in the house - possibly someone who took the old key.
and we know there was a howling even if the campus isn't admitting it.

I'm assuming another kid is missing and/or found dead and Delilah's clothes getting washed are suspicious. Did she have to kill someone to get away?

and we know she was having problems with things going missing - if she blamed her roommate and got moved because of it.

AND we know something is up with the parents right? some reason they said she can't be there (because it seems like more than just "we don't want you around our breakable things" lol )

AND we know another house burned down recently in the neighborhood

jeez, there is a lot going on and it seems to all point toward someone from the past who knows something more
and then them either terrorizing and/or pushing Delilah - or this person getting Delilah interested enough that she started pushing for answers to old questions and THAT got someone pushing her to stop. . ..

hmmmmm (hide spoiler)]

so far it's really good!

Through Chapter 27 / 79%

(view spoiler)[ oh no, I knew there was something funny going on with the parents but I never imagined they'd been fired! Holy moly! and mortgaged the house. so did they get in trouble because of the fire and the trouble she brought? Did they possibly start the fire to try to hide what they'd done, not realizing it would result in deaths?

hmmm. . . .and that still doesn't explain what or who is bothering Delilah. . . .I wonder what's really going on (hide spoiler)]

and done

wow, lots of surprises at the end
(view spoiler)[ wow, the parents are the reason she made it out - or at least the mom! and they paid her for so long!

and wow, never even suspected Violet

I was surprised when she was arrested in the end but I guess she finally had to pay the price for the dangerous game they played (hide spoiler)]