£4.99 – £9.99
A compelling psychological thriller about a young girl who is forced to confront her past demons after a mysterious new neighbour moves in next door.
Portia Willows was a high school senior in Los Angeles when a devastating car accident took the lives of her mother and sister. After their death, Portia’s social anxiety grows worse. She and her father become heavily dependent on cigarettes and alcohol to cope with their grief.
The book starts five years in the future when she must confront her distorted memory of the past – Portia has committed a crime, and she can’t remember it. As investigators close in, her fractured mind becomes a puzzle she must solve before it’s too late. Then Ethan Torke moves in across the street. At first, he seems like a distraction, but soon, his presence forces Portia to confront a possibility that she would have never expected. The deeper she digs, the more the walls of her safe reality crumble. Sinister pasts are bound to be revealed; the truth always catches up, and fantasies never last.
An unforgettable tale of memory, love, and strength through the darkest of times, Remember announces a brave new voice in psychological suspense.
“Smith’s empathy for her characters makes for a supremely relatable take on mental illness. Remember is an emotional rollercoaster of a debut, culminating with a twist that will leave you reeling.”
— Alafair Burke, NYT bestselling author of The Better Sister
“Patricia Smith’s work feels necessary. She’s as honest in her writing as she is in real life, and that is very honest indeed.”
— CrimeReads (October’s Best Debut Novel Pick)
“Remember is a thought-provoking character study and intriguing mystery rolled into one. Patricia Shanae Smith is a welcome and much needed addition to the psychological suspense genre. In this search for self in a city filled with many voices, Smith’s Portia is one character you won’t forget.”
— Kelley Garrett, Anthony, Agatha and Lefty award-winning author of Hollywood Homicide and Hollywood Ending
“Having survived depression and addiction, Smith has chosen to give herself over to writing in order to use words to save lives. And we should all be grateful.”
— Matt Coleman, Book Riot
“Intense…an earnest treatise on mental illness.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
“Smith’s debut heralds the entrance of a writing talent to be watched… its discussion of unreliable memories and a toxic father-daughter relationship based on forgetting, should please fans of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen.”
— CrimeReads
