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Cover Reveal! THE HOOK!

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Victoria Helen Stone, smiling and looking sideways at a book covered by white paper that reads "The Hook 5/23." The corner of the paper is folded down to reveal a scarlet red.

My latest dark suspense, The Hook, hits shelves on May 23, 2023. Just last week, I saw the cover for the first time, and when I tell you I screamed with delight, I really SCREAMED WITH DELIGHT! A scarlet red cover? Yes please.

Are you ready for the deets? Or do you want to pre-order right now?!? Or do you just want to see this gorgeous artwork?

Scarlet red covers the entire cover of the book, and bold letters are cut out to reveal the image beneath. The letters read "The Hook a novel, Victoria Helen Stone bestselling author of Jane Doe and False Step." The image beneath is a close-up of white woman with scarlet lipstick leaning close to a white man's ear, as if she means to whisper."

Three betrayed women with revenge in common channel their fury in a twisting novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and False Step.

A women’s boxing class is the perfect place for betrayed wife Katherine to work out her aggressions. Ideal, too, for Geneva, a teacher disgraced and ruined by a vengeful ex, and Luz, a software engineer battling an unjust system. Maggie, their instructor and mentor, guarantees she can right the wrongs they’ve endured. And if Katherine, Geneva, and Luz really want to unleash their rage, they must do what Maggie says.

Each woman’s secret task has its risks. Call it justice. Call it revenge. It’s bound to be worth it—if no missteps are made. As they take the leap to reclaim what they’re owed, their lives are turned upside down. Because no one could have guessed that it would all end in murder.

Now, coming together to harness their power, Katherine, Geneva, and Luz fear that the game they’ve been playing is playing them.

Order now and The Hook will be in your home, ready to read on May 23!

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Parkersburg News & Sentinel Review!

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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.”

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Publishers Weekly Loves The Last One Home!

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The Publishers Weekly review of The Last One Home is in!

Stone gradually reveals her multifaceted characters’ secrets as the intricate, fast-paced plot builds to a surprising conclusion. 

After Lauren Abrams, the protagonist of this unsettling psychological thriller from Stone (False Step), breaks up with her boyfriend in L.A., she returns home to Sacramento, Calif., where her 90-year-old paternal grandmother is in the hospital recovering from a stroke. When her grandmother offers to sell Lauren the family ranch outside the city, she accepts. While renovating the ranch house, Lauren receives a letter from serial killer Bobby Edward Kepnick regarding a murder for which her father, Michael, was imprisoned for 10 years decades ago. Kepnick’s confession to the murder led to Michael’s release. Lauren remains estranged from her mother, Donna, whose testimony helped convict her father. Flashbacks beginning in 1985 chart the fraught relationship between Donna and Michael. As Lauren digs deeper into her family’s history, she uncovers things that leave her questioning everything she thought she knew about her father’s family. Stone gradually reveals her multifaceted characters’ secrets as the intricate, fast-paced plot builds to a surprising conclusion. Fans of dark, twisted tales of dysfunctional families will be satisfied. 

Up Close Interview with The Big Thrill!

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by Angela Channell

“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…

Victoria sits in front of a bookshelf, smiling toward window

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.’”

Click to read full article on The Big Thrill

The Last One Home will be out March 30!

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