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Cross My Heart
Paperback
Publisher: Carol A. Campbell
Published: Nov 9 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A dark playground promise. Three broken lives. One inescapable trap.
CROSS MY HEART. HOPE TO DIE. STICK A NEEDLE IN MY EYE.
Twenty-five years ago, three twelve-year-old girls stood on the hot gravel banks of Miller's Pit and carved a blood oath into their chests. They swore to carry a horrific secret to their graves. They promised never to look at each other, never to call, and to leave their small hometown the moment they were old enough to escape.
For a quarter of a century, the promise held. Until an accidental digital footprint changes everything.
Told in three stunning, interconnected perspective shifts, Cross My Heart is a masterfully dark domestic thriller that pieces together a chilling puzzle of survival, betrayal, and absolute vengeance:
- SANDRA'S STORY: The terrified witness. She has spent her adulthood hiding in the safe, predictable routine of an overnight grocery shift, wearing high crew necks to hide her scar. But when a waxy red heart with a carved X appears on her cooler door, she realizes the past has finally tracked her down.
- JESSICA'S STORY: The calculating mastermind. Now a polished third-grade teacher with a pristine, color-coded life, she believes she is in absolute control. When an eerie message appears in the corner of her pristine chalkboard, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands to silence the loose ends once and for all.
- RUBY'S STORY: The haunted survivor. She buried her trauma beneath a flawless professional career, a beautiful smile, and a doting boyfriend who checks her car for winter emergencies. But as the bodies begin to drop around her, she realizes she isn't driving the trap-she is walking straight into it.
As the childhood rhyme transforms into a meticulous execution list, a terrifying question emerges: Who is the real puppet master?
Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden's The Housemaid and Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are, Cross My Heart is a brilliant, structurally unique psychological suspense novel that will leave you completely breathless until the final page turns.
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