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Brianna Labuskes
USA Today best-selling author of historical fiction & psychological thrillers
“A journalist discovers cracks in the facade of a tradwife influencer in Labuskes’s satisfying latest… she pulls off pulls off some truly surprising and unsettling twists along the way. Psychological thriller fans will get exactly what they came for.”
COMING JANUARY 1, 2026
When journalist Holland Tate is granted an interview with Catriona Bouchard, her former best friend turned mega-popular tradwife, she jumps at the chance to also possibly rewrite their bitter ending. But at the Bouchards’ gated compound, what she finds is not the independent woman she once knew. Cat may have six beautiful children and be married to the man she calls the love of her life, but she’s a ghost of her former self.
With each passing hour behind those locked gates, Holland uncovers dark secrets, darker obsessions, and hidden motives that shine a new light on the events that ended their friendship. Cat’s beautiful life, it seems, is nothing more than an ugly lie.
Even as danger mounts, Cat sticks to the narrative she’s selling: She lives a perfect life with her perfect husband. Holland came to the compound to get the killer story behind that glossy image. Now all she cares about is getting out of there alive.
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Brianna
USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts and Washington Post best-selling author.
Bri loves reading and writing in two of her favorite genres: psychological thrillers and historical fiction. She got her start in romance with a small publisher and still adores swoon-worthy meet-cutes. You can find that strong sense of relationship-building in all of Bri’s work.
She has published more than a dozen novels in her career and isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
She spent the first decade-plus-change of her career in D.C. journalism and thus knows too much about the Ways & Means Committee as well as the best way to avoid traffic on the Beltway. She now lives in Pennsylvania with her pup, Jinx.
Her last name is pronounced La-bus-kiss (it’s okay, no one gets it right!)