This Story Might Save Your Life A Novel

Benny Abbott and Joy Moore are the faces of a chart-topping 'comedy survival' podcast, where they find life-affirming humor in harrowing near-death stories. To their millions of listeners, they are the ultimate best friends—a bond carefully managed by Joy’s husband, Xander. But the narrative fractures when Benny arrives at Joy’s home to find a shattered window and an empty house. With Joy and Xander missing, the police quickly label Benny as their prime suspect. Desperate to clear his name and find his friend, Benny’s only lead is an incomplete, secret memoir Joy was writing. As the chapters of her past reveal a pattern of control and hidden truths, Benny realizes that the people he thought he knew best were keeping the most dangerous secrets of all. Told through dual timelines and interwoven with podcast transcripts and memoir excerpts, this is a high-stakes thriller about the stories we tell others and the ones we tell ourselves to survive.

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