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The Story
Secrets emerge as a Texas beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author Kelsey Cox.
2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace. 2025: The Lone Star Princess Pageant is about to begin, but this year it's offering more than an annual dose of rhinestone heels and plunging necklines. Competition is stiffer than ever --and long standing grudges are about to resurface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in the wake of her sister Isabelle's disappearance and has now returned, just in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch; the pageant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget; Cat, newly sober, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons; and Sarah Lynn, who comes from a long line of pageant winners, knows that losing is not an option. When old resentments and new confrontations reach their boiling point, temperatures drop to deadly degrees as a record-setting storm brings down the state's power grid. With everyone trapped under one roof, scores will be settled, and more than one person will end up dead. Beauty dies. Secrets never do.KELSEY COX'S NOVELS ARE: "Riveting." --People "Heart-pumping." --Nina Simon "Jaw-dropping." --Amanda Eyre Ward "Joins my auto-buy list forever." --Rachel Hawkins
Author: Kelsey Cox
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.49w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781250378842
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2026
About the Author
KELSEY COX received her MFA in fiction from Purdue University and works from home in the Texas Hill Country. You can often find her writing at Mammen Family Public Library, chasing around her two young daughters, or watching British mysteries with her mom and aunts. On nights when bedtime goes as planned, she enjoys curling up on the sofa, glass of wine in hand, and a book with complicated characters and a killer twist in her lap. She is also the author of Party of Liars.
Description
Secrets emerge as a Texas beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author Kelsey Cox.
2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace. 2025: The Lone Star Princess Pageant is about to begin, but this year it's offering more than an annual dose of rhinestone heels and plunging necklines. Competition is stiffer than ever --and long standing grudges are about to resurface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in the wake of her sister Isabelle's disappearance and has now returned, just in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch; the pageant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget; Cat, newly sober, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons; and Sarah Lynn, who comes from a long line of pageant winners, knows that losing is not an option. When old resentments and new confrontations reach their boiling point, temperatures drop to deadly degrees as a record-setting storm brings down the state's power grid. With everyone trapped under one roof, scores will be settled, and more than one person will end up dead. Beauty dies. Secrets never do.KELSEY COX'S NOVELS ARE: "Riveting." --People "Heart-pumping." --Nina Simon "Jaw-dropping." --Amanda Eyre Ward "Joins my auto-buy list forever." --Rachel Hawkins
Author: Kelsey Cox
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.49w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781250378842
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2026
About the Author
KELSEY COX received her MFA in fiction from Purdue University and works from home in the Texas Hill Country. You can often find her writing at Mammen Family Public Library, chasing around her two young daughters, or watching British mysteries with her mom and aunts. On nights when bedtime goes as planned, she enjoys curling up on the sofa, glass of wine in hand, and a book with complicated characters and a killer twist in her lap. She is also the author of Party of Liars.
