A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnés, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agn?s escape ten years ago. Now, Agnés is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnés on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.