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Follow Her Down

by Victoria Helen Stone
Follow Her Down by Victoria Helen Stone
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Decades of doubt, fear, and suspicion won’t let a woman overcome her trauma in a riveting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook.

The murder of Elise Rockwood’s sister shattered her family. Their mother’s anxiety kept her housebound. Elise’s paranoid brother, Kyle, saw conspiracies everywhere. Elise numbed her grief in an aimless lifestyle that left her emotionally broken. All of them victims. A local boy eventually confessed, but the damage was already done.

Years later, Elise is reinventing herself. She’s bought a mountain lodge to be close to home again and to find stability. Not even an email from her ex tempts her into revisiting the past. But Kyle won’t let it go. He still believes there’s more to their sister’s murder—and the confession—than meets the eye. When Elise’s ex is found dead in the same forest where her sister went missing decades before, Elise is finally willing to listen.

The traumas of the past are reemerging. So is the truth. Elise’s greatest fear now is who will survive it.

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Release date: June 4, 2024

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Victoria Helen Stone

Victoria Helen Stone

When Victoria Helen Stone writes a woman into a corner, she doesn’t offer a ladder—she gives her a knife. Known for crafting taut psychological thrillers where justice simmers beneath the surface, Stone specializes in characters who’ve been underestimated for far too long. Her breakout novel Jane Doe set the tone: a story where vengeance isn’t just cathartic—it’s clinical. And that’s exactly what her readers have come to crave. Not chaos for shock value, but carefully controlled combustion.

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Stone didn’t arrive in the world of thrillers by accident. Before she began exploring the darker edges of the human psyche, she spent years penning romance novels under the name Victoria Dahl—more than 25 of them, in fact. That deep understanding of emotional nuance now underpins her suspense fiction, where relationships are never simple and motives rarely surface clean. The shift wasn’t just about genre; it was about voice. With her thrillers, she found the space to write women who are cold when they need to be, cunning when the moment demands it, and brave enough to choose their own version of justice.

Raised in the Midwest and now based in the mountainous quiet of Utah, Stone draws inspiration from places that hold their secrets close. Her settings—whether an isolated neighborhood, a suffocating small town, or a deceptively serene family home—mirror the hidden tensions of her characters. In books like The Last One Home and Problem Child, she weaves suspense not just through plot, but through psychology. Her protagonists aren't simply victims or heroines—they’re strategists, often pushed to their limits by betrayal, grief, or long-buried trauma.

Stone’s work stands out in a crowded thriller market for its restraint and precision. She doesn’t rely on shock twists or high-speed chases; the tension in her stories builds slowly, often through the eyes of women who have survived quietly for too long. Her writing is clean, intimate, and laced with insight into the darker corners of everyday life—particularly the roles women are expected to play, and what happens when they finally refuse.

Victoria Helen Stone writes not for the thrill alone, but for the reckoning. In her stories, survival isn’t just about escaping danger—it’s about refusing to disappear.

More books by Victoria Helen Stone

Bald-Faced Liar: A Novel
⧗ 8.00 / 1
The Hook
Unrated
Problem Child (Jane Doe)
Unrated
Jane Doe (Jane Doe)
Unrated


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