The Last Caretaker: A Novel

An instant USA Today bestseller. A woman in search of a new beginning is put to the test in ways she never imagined in an empowering and provocative page-turner by the author of Not That I Could Tell. Katies divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess offers a fresh starta resident caretaking job at a nature preserveKatie accepts. No matter that shes not exactly a nature person. How hard can it be? But from day one, something feels off. Katies new farmhouse looks as if the last caretaker barely moved out at all. When a frantic, terrified woman arrives late at night, expecting a safe place to hide, its clear caretaking involves way more than Katie bargained for. Suddenly, Katie is no longer sure who she can trust: the brooding groundskeeper, the daily regularshikers, dog walkers, bird-watchers, photographerseven Bess. As Katie digs deeper for clues in what the last caretaker left behind, she must discover courage she never knew she hadand decide how much shell risk to do the right thing.