Publication Date: October 23, 2026
Two couples. One vacation. Who will make it out alive?
Emily: When I first saw the glass-fronted house perched on the edge of Lake Tahoe, a shiver ran though me. I knew I had to have it. And convincing my best friend, Samantha , and her husband, Patrick, into buying with us was easy; she always does what I tell her. But I throw my husband, Keith, a warning glance as he jokes about our bigger share. I need this week away to be perfect so they never learn my secret, or how far I will go to keep it.
Samantha: I can read Emily like a book. Toasting our first night away together, I can tell that something isn’t right. Why does she stiffen every time Keith speaks, and check her phone when she thinks no one is looking? I’ve always let her think that she’s the one pulling all the strings, but she has no idea why I drained our savings to buy this remote lakeside house or my real reason for being here…
As night falls on our first evening in our new home, an ear-piercing scream breaks the silence, scattering birds from the pine trees. Someone is a liar. Someone is a killer. Someone is dead.
Readers who love psychological thrillers like The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Girl on the Train will absolutely devour this twist-packed book from Cathryn Grant.
What is supposed to be a relaxing getaway for two best friends and their spouses turns into a nightmarish experience.
Author Cathryn Grant sets the pace with tension and suspense in Two Couples. Told through alternating perspectives of the two friends, drama takes over once they set foot in their co-owned vacation retreat.
Samantha seeks a closer relationship with her firefighter husband, Patrick, who seems to always be ready to give attention to others. His character, especially when put alongside Emily and Keith, seems to always cause friction.
Meanwhile, Emily and Keith’s seemingly perfect marriage is showing signs of difficulties. Add a shocking discovery along with vandalism and threatening notes for a decidedly stressful vacay.
The author manages to keep the pace moving as clues are dropped along the way. Something strange is definitely going on with the neighbors, but it’s not until later that all the pieces come together.
Two Couples provides a twist that readers never saw coming.
Cathryn is the author of over thirty psychological suspense novels. The things that cause torment in real life—obsession and revenge, guilt and envy and longing—are endlessly fascinating in fiction, and she never grows tired of writing stories about characters struggling to overcome the worst. Cathryn also writes ghost stories because… who knows what lies beyond our senses.
When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading, walking on the beach, or playing golf, going way out of her way to avoid hitting her ball in the sand or the water. She lives on the Central California Coast with her husband and their cat, Cleopatra.
