The Last Course

Seven guests sat at table nine. Four of them are dead. The other three will do anything to keep it quiet.

Ghostwriter Dani Marchetti makes other people sound brilliant for a living. She also has $411 in checking, a mother slipping away in memory care, and an eviction notice taped to her door.

So when Celeste Aubrey, the gracious, grieving wife of celebrity chef Julien Aubrey, offers her a year's rent to finish her husband's memoir, Dani doesn't ask questions.

Two years ago, Julien walked out of his own restaurant in the middle of Saturday service and was never seen again. All he left behind were his journals: brilliant, furious, vain, and marked in the corner of certain pages with the same chilling note.

Served to the table in 9.

Then Dani finds the ledger. Seven dates. Seven dishes. Seven powerful guests, among them a judge and a senator, each seated behind a curtain at a private table in the back of the dining room.

A heart attack. A bridge. A fire. A road.

Four deaths that looked perfectly natural. Three survivors with everything to lose. And a kind, heartbroken widow who has opened her home and her kitchen to Dani, and who may be the only person keeping her safe.

Someone wants the book to say Julien simply got tired. Someone else is watching Dani's building at night. And the closer she gets to the truth about table nine, the clearer it becomes that she wasn't hired for her talent.

She was chosen.

THE LAST COURSE is a dark, twisting psychological thriller about hunger, loyalty, and the lies we let people feed us, right up to the final unforgettable verdict.