The Promised World: A Novel

From “riveting storyteller” (People) Lisa Tucker, a mesmerizing and suspenseful tale of intimacy, betrayal, and lost innocence about a literature professor whose carefully constructed life shatters after her twin brother’s death.

On a March afternoon, while Lila Cole is working in her quiet office, her twin brother, Billy, points an unloaded rifle out a hotel window. The aftermath of his death brings shock after shock for Lila when she discovers that her brilliant but troubled twin was not o...