An evening at a billionaire's manor. Five strangers. One empty chair. And a story that was never supposed to be told.

When journalist Sarah Mitchell drives up to White Horse Manor on a gray April evening, she expects an awkward reunion with an old college acquaintance — Everett Vance, the tech billionaire who vanished from public life six years ago and who, until last week, hadn't spoken to her since freshman year.

Instead, she finds an empty seat at the head of the table, four other guests she has never met, and a slowly dawning realization: every person in the room has, at some point in the last fifteen years, been quietly destroyed by the same man.

A coal magnate who lost his daughter.

An investment banker who lost his fortune.

A finance executive whose husband is serving forty months in federal prison.

A socialite who hasn't used her real name in thirteen years.

And the host they came to confront isn't coming back.

Or is he?

As the wine flows and the stories surface — flashback by flashback, betrayal by betrayal — Sarah begins to understand that the dinner is not what it appears to be, the host is not who he appears to be, and one of the five people seated around the table has been waiting for this evening for a very long time.

By the time the rain stops, the man who summoned them will have made his final confession, four of his victims will have driven home with envelopes worth more than they came in with, and the most patient guest at the table will have walked out of White Horse Manor carrying the story of a lifetime.

A slow-burn, atmospheric thriller in the tradition of Lucy Foley's THE GUEST LIST, Ruth Ware's ONE BY ONE, and Anthony Horowitz's MAGPIE MURDERS — set across one rainy evening in a single house, where every guest has a secret, every silence has a reason, and the most dangerous person in the room may be the one who looks like she's barely there.

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THE OTHER GUEST is Book Four in THE OTHER series. Every novel stands alone and can be read in any order.

If you love ensemble mysteries, dinner-party thrillers, and stories where the past pulls up a chair — welcome to White Horse Manor.

We've been waiting for you.