What She Took
A Black Lake Thriller By: Christina McDonald
ISBN: 9781738518456
Publisher: Intrigue Ink Publishing Publication Date: 01/26/2027 Format: e-book
My Rating: TBR (ARC)
A desperate woman accepts a dangerous deal at a remote lakeside lodge in exchange for one small thing, in this twisty cat-and-mouse thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Night Olivia Fell.
Sunday Reese is broke, hunted by a loan shark, and out of options. So when a car crash on a dark road leaves her stranded in a hospital far from anywhere she knows, it's just one more stroke of bad luck.
Then Bec, the owner of a nearby lakeside lodge, offers her a place to recover. And a way out of the debts chasing her. All Sunday has to do is one thing for Bec first…
But there are things Bec doesn’t know about Sunday. Things Sunday can’t run from forever.
When a woman turns up dead on the lodge grounds, a detective starts asking questions neither of them can afford to answer. Bec thinks she’s in control. Sunday has survived worse than her. Only one of them is right. And in this game, the losers end up dead.
For readers who love:
Snowbound, locked-room thrillers
Deals with the devil
Deadly cat-and-mouse games
The lengths we'll go for love
Emotionally-charged storytelling
Praise for The Black Lake series
“I am hooked on the Jess Lambert series, it keeps getting better and better.”
—Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author
About the Author
Christina McDonald is the award-winning, USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Jess Lambert series, Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell (Simon & Schuster), which has been optioned for television by a major Hollywood studio.
Her critically acclaimed novels have been featured on lists from Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Real Simple, and more. She has been nominated for a number of awards, including the Daphne du Maurier Award, the Silver Falchion Award and the Dead Good Reader Award, and she won the Killer Nashville Reader’s Choice Award in 2024. Her writing has been featured in The Sunday Times, Dublin, USAToday.com, and Expedia.
Originally from Seattle, WA, she has an MA in Journalism from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and she now lives in London, England with her husband, two sons, and their dog, Tango.
Christina enjoys reading, hiking and lifting weights at the gym. She always wanted to be a writer, and told her earliest stories to her two younger sisters, who were her first audience, cheerleaders and sounding board. She has a BA in Communications from the University of Washington, Seattle and an MA in Journalism from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Going to college in Ireland wasn’t part of the master plan, but happened randomly when Christina went travelling and arrived completely jet lagged at Heathrow Airport in London, caught sight of the Aer Lingus desk, and spontaneously bought a ticket to Ireland. She loved it so much she went back the following year to study.
She is currently writing her next novel. WEBSITE
