Until Alison: A Novel

**"Empowering, heartbreaking, and thrilling in equal measure." —Ivy Pochoda, award-winning author of *Sing Her Down* and *Ecstasy*
"A deft and compulsively readable storyteller." —Claire Lombardo, *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Most Fun We Ever Had* and *Same As It Ever Was*
*The night Alison was murdered, Rachel could have stopped it.* **
When Rachel Nardelli learns that Alison Petrucci—her childhood rival—is found dead in Pleasant Pond, the same place the two girls had first said “goodbye” to each other back in eighth grade, the town of Waterbury is outraged by the fear of losing one of their own—the heir to Maine’s largest construction company. But Alison’s death is a little more complicated for Rachel. She’d seen Alison the night she died. She’d said something she shouldn’t have, had callously stirred up the past. And the next morning, Alison was gone.
Plagued by the long-barbed memories surrounding Alison, Rachel joins her journalism crew to investigate the murder. But as she’s forced to revisit their fraught relationship, she falls into a web of cruelties that threatens to undo everything she understood about her past.
A psychological drama from the acclaimed Kate Russo, *Until Alison* is a brilliantly incisive and resonant novel that is at once about class, gender, and the arbitrary nature of violence.