09/30/2026
The secret is out!!!
KEEP ME LIKE A SECRET by Stacy Willingham is coming June 2027 from Minotaur Books.
Huge thanks to Lizz Schumer and People Magazine for revealing the fabulous cover earlier today.
KEEP ME LIKE A SECRET is one of the best thrillers I’ve read in a long time. The QUEEN of Southern Suspense really delivers!! I’m so excited for readers.
You are not going to want to miss this one.
Here’s the book description:
Back in 1999, four ten-year-old girls were kidnapped in Fairhope, Alabama, one at a time. Three of them never came home, but Rachel Pratt, the sole survivor of the “Fairhope Four”, fought her way free and lived to tell the tale.
Fairhope is the kind of small town where bad things don’t happen, so the case made national news. It was primarily Rachel’s testimonythat sent her kidnapper, Simon Burkett, to death row—but now, twenty-six years later, Simon’s sentence has been overturned on a technicality, and Rachel is in the news all over again.
This time, however, she’s no longer the brave little girl who escaped, but the villain who may have put an innocent man behind bars.
Two weeks after Simon’s release, another girl goes missing in Fairhope, and Rachel returns to her hometown in fear that her own nightmare is happening again. As the days pass, she is overwhelmed with her memories of that long ago summer, and begins to doubt her own recollections. Has Simon Burkett struck again, or has another monster emerged in Fairhope? Determined to uncover the truth, once and for all, Rachel dives head-first into her own investigation, no matter whose deepest secrets she will unravel—including her own.
