THE GUEST ROOM
A psychological thrillerBy Arthur Payne
Length3h 20m
About this audiobook
The night my sister disappeared, she was wearing my dress.
Six years later, I'm about to marry into the family that owns the lake house where it happened, and I've just found her hairbrush sitting on the nightstand of a room that's supposedly been sealed shut since the night she vanished. Still tangled in the bristles: a single strand of hair too dark, too long, to be mine.
I was drunk on champagne and my own engagement that night, three rooms away while whatever happened to Ivy happened. I've spent six years rebuilding myself around that absence, learning to carry a grief with no body, no answers, no ending, just a cold case file and a detective who stopped returning my calls years ago. I told myself I could walk back into this house. I told my therapist the same thing, three separate times, in the same rehearsed voice I've used for six years to describe a peace I've never actually made.
Now I'm three weeks from my wedding, standing in my future grandmother-in-law's lake house, holding evidence that should not exist, and I don't know who I can tell. Not Nathan, whose easy, unbothered calm I used to call patience and have started, lately, to wonder if it's actually something else. Not his family, who have spent six years treating my sister's disappearance like an inconvenient piece of "old business," nodded past at every dinner table since. Not even myself, some nights, when the house creaks in ways I can't yet tell apart from an old building settling and something else entirely.
Every question I ask peels back another layer of a family that has perfected the art of looking away from things it doesn't want to see. And every answer I find pulls me further from the version of that night I thought I understood, and further from the man I'm supposed to be building a life with in three weeks' time.
I used to think the worst thing that could happen already happened, the night my sister walked into the trees and never came back.
I was wrong. The worst thing is finding out how much of what came after was a lie.
The Guest Room is a dual-timeline domestic suspense novel about grief, buried secrets, and the particular cruelty of a family that has spent six years perfecting its silence, for readers who love unreliable memories, slow-burn dread, and a truth that unravels one impossible discovery at a time.
If you loved The Silent Patient, Verity, or Then She Was Gone, you will not want to put this one down.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Mystery and Thriller
Length3 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Front Matter
25Chapter Twenty-Three: Now
2Foreword
26Chapter Twenty-Four: Then
3Chapter One: Now
27Chapter Twenty-Five: Then
4Chapter Two: Then
28Chapter Twenty-Six: Now
5Chapter Three: Now
29Chapter Twenty-Seven: Now
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6Chapter Four: Then
30Chapter Twenty-Eight: Now
7Chapter Five: Now
31Chapter Twenty-Nine: Then
8Chapter Six: Then
32Chapter Thirty: Now
9Chapter Seven: Now
33Chapter Thirty-One: Then
10Chapter Eight: Then
34Chapter Thirty-Two: Now
11Chapter Nine: Then
35Chapter Thirty-Three: Now
12Chapter Ten: Now
36Chapter Thirty-Four: Then
13Chapter Eleven: Then
37Chapter Thirty-Five: Now
14Chapter Twelve: Then
38Chapter Thirty-Six: Now
15Chapter Thirteen: Then
39Chapter Thirty-Seven: Now
16Chapter Fourteen: Now
40Chapter Thirty-Eight: Now
17Chapter Fifteen: Now
41Chapter Thirty-Nine: Then
18Chapter Sixteen: Now
42Chapter Forty: Now
19Chapter Seventeen: Then
43Chapter Forty-One: Now
20Chapter Eighteen: Now
44Chapter Forty-Two: Now
21Chapter Nineteen: Now
45Chapter Forty-Three: Epilogue
22Chapter Twenty: Then
46Chapter Forty-Four: One Year Later
23Chapter Twenty-One: Then
47Acknowledgements
24Chapter Twenty-Two: Now
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