Publication Date: May 26, 2026
You fell for him. You shouldn’t have…
I walk up the steps into the marble hall. I’m in a beautiful dress, a fake smile fixed on my face. The ceremony will start soon. I’m pretending everything is fine.
I think back to how it started. The handsome stranger I met one night, charming and vulnerable, his brown eyes fixed on me like they saw right through me.
I know now that our meeting was no coincidence. But I could never have dreamed how far he would go, and how powerless I would be to stop him.
So I will get through today. The vows, the photos, the cake.
And then I will do what I must to protect my family…
A completely unputdownable psychological thriller about family, revenge, and how far people will go to protect the ones they love. From the bestselling author of The Dinner Guest, The New Boyfriend is perfect for fans of T.M. Logan, Shari Lapena and Lisa Jewell.
A seemingly random encounter with a desperate stranger leads to unintended consequences for Serena and her adult son, Art.
Author B.P. Walter weaves a story rife with psychological tension in The New Boyfriend. Both Serena and Art have secrets they are keeping from each other, but they maintain a close relationship for the most part.
Their relationship gets put to the test by Paul, a stranger Serena helps. Initially, his emotionally fragile state of mind makes him seem relatively harmless. He, too, has secrets he is hiding.
Serena even fancies the idea that Paul, although younger, might be a potential love interest. The author adds a unique plot twist that changes the story’s trajectory, bringing with it a malevolent force.
The New Boyfriend leads to a collision of past and present with bone-chilling consequences.
B.P. Walter was born and raised in Essex. After spending his childhood and teenage years reading compulsively, he worked in bookshops then went to the University of Southampton to study Film and English followed by an MA in Film & Cultural Management. He is an alumnus of the Faber Academy and previously worked as the Social Media Coordinator for Waterstones. His novels include the bestsellers The Dinner Gues t and The Woman on the Pier , along with horror novel Scuttle (as Barnaby Walter) and Medlock (as S.G. Hartnell).
