bestselling author of emotional suspense
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel recommended The Last One Home in their Community Extra edition! Reviewer Amy Phelps says, “The story gives just enough detail each chapter to keep the reader intrigued about where it is going to go next. The ending was a big surprise for me. Family secrets will never be looked at the same.”
Sarah and I discuss The Last One Home, revenge books, Jane Doe, and aging with ferocity on the latest episode of Smart Podcast, Trashy Books!!! Look for Episode 451: More Earl Had to Die anywhere you get your podcasts, see below for a preview, or you can listen here: bit.ly/Ep451VHStone
“In THE LAST ONE HOME, the latest title by Jane Doe author Victoria Helen Stone, nobody can be trusted. Least of all your family.
Lies and the choosing of whose truth to believe has driven a wedge between mother and daughter Lauren and Donna Abrams, Stone’s steely protagonists. It’s through their voices that we alternately hear of how Lauren came to want nothing to do with Donna, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren’s father to prison for murder years ago…
The novel is psychologically complex due to these two competing voices, which Stone attributes to wanting to convey the real-life complexity of secrets and truth. “I really wanted to examine the truth as a three-dimensional object that can’t be entirely seen by one set of eyes,” she says. “Lauren views her mother through the lens of the difficult and twisted life they lived together. That’s all she can see. But Donna’s narrative offers an utterly different story from an utterly different woman than ‘Lauren’s mom.’”