Adults can behave badly too...
On Sale January 20, 2026
About the Book
From the author of The Hunting Wives comes a deliciously wicked new thriller about mean girls, mean moms, and the delicious secrets inside all the little houses.
About May
May Cobb is an award-winning author of The Hunting Wives, My Summer Darlings, A Likeable Woman, and Big Woods. Her books have received attention from Book of The Month, The Today Show, and Oprah Daily and have been optioned for film/TV. She has an M.A. from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post and Good Housekeeping. She currently lives in Austin with her family. Her novel The Hunting Wives is soon to be a series on NETFLIX.
Praise for May's Books
May Cobb writes suspense you can mainline
—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window, on The Hollywood Assistant
Bring on the backyard chardonnay and rich, nasty housewives of East Texas...Gossipy, glamorous, andhair-raising.
—Oprah Daily on A Likeable Woman
The queen of sultry crime—the empress of women’s wrongs—is back with her most sumptuous and sensual book yet.
—Ashley Winstead, author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour, on
The Hollywood Assistant
A scorching sizzler of a thriller
—Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today bestselling author of A Friend in the Dark, on The Hollywood Assistant
Sultry, salacious and utterly unpredictable...
—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Middle of the Night on
The Hunting Wives
Addicting, twisted, and a whole lot of fun...
—Simone St. James, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases, on
My Summer Darlings
Soon to be a Netflix Series!
The Hunting Wives, a TV series, based on May's novel.
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