Nothing Like a Sister

Two years after her younger sister’s death, Izzy moves into Mariah’s old sorority house and finds that the young women there are keeping darker secrets than she ever could have imagined, in Darby Bozeman’s eerie and atmospheric new novel.

When Izzy Fairchild arrives on Derrington’s campus to start her new position as assistant house director at Gamma Zeta, she’s searching for answers. Ever since her younger sister, Mariah, died while a student and sorority member there, Izzy has been consumed with guilt about the rift between them and filled with suspicions about Mariah’s alleged suicide.

The house is beautiful, but the girls are…intense. Their whispered conversations and strange obsession with a ghost story about the home’s previous owners make Izzy believe that they’re hiding something sinister. While Izzy pieces together the days and weeks before Mariah’s death—and learns that she was paranoid and desperate to leave the house for good—she becomes more and more certain that Mariah didn’t take her own life…but that one of the Gamma Zetas did. Izzy is on the verge of discovering something big, but when she starts finding her locked doors mysteriously unlocked and hearing footsteps passing through her room at night, she knows someone wants to scare her away. What is the cost of this twisted sisterhood, and what is Izzy willing to do in order to ensure her own sister gets the justice she deserves?

More than one Gamma Zeta has a secret that could change everything—and bring the whole house down with them.

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