Talking to Strangers

Every morning, Gabriella Calloway takes a twenty-three minute walk. It’s the only thing in her life that belongs to her.

She doesn’t know someone has been watching from the tree line for sixteen days.

Ryder is a man of systems — patient, methodical, precise. He chose Gabby the way he chooses everything: deliberately, completely, without room for error. What he didn’t account for was who she actually is underneath the careful performance of a woman surviving an abusive marriage. Or what she would do to him.

When Gabby’s controlling husband turns up dead alongside his mistress, Detective Ryan sees exactly what he expects to see — a wife with motive and no alibi. What he doesn’t see is Ryder: the attorney, the predator, the man who will burn the entire legal system down before he lets Gabby spend a single day in a cell for something he did.

Or did she?

Talking to Strangers is a dark romantic thriller told in alternating voices — a woman discovering herself and a man discovering he has something to lose. Twisting, explicit, and relentlessly compelling, it asks one question from the first page to the last: who really killed John Calloway?