Forget You Know Me

In her engrossing new novel, Forget You Know Me, Jessica Strawser takes readers deep into an intimate friendship between two women—when one witnesses a shocking incident that should never have been caught on camera, the secrets and lies it exposes threaten to break them apart and change their lives forever.

Molly and Liza have always been close in a way that people envy. Even after Molly married Daniel, Liza stayed an honorary member of their family. But after Liza moved away, things grew more strained than anyone wanted to admit. In the friendship and the marriage.

When Daniel goes away on business, Molly and Liza plan to reconnect with a nice long video chat over wine after the kids are in bed. But midway through, Liza is thrown into a panic: Molly leaves the room, a man in a mask enters, and the screen goes black.

After calling the police, Liza frantically tries to reach Molly, but when she finally responds, her message is icy and terse, insisting that everything is fine. Liza is still convinced something is wrong?that her friend is in danger. But after an all-night drive to rescue her ends in a brutal confrontation, Liza is sure their friendship is over—completely unaware that she’s about to have a near miss of her own. And Molly, refusing to deal with what’s happened, won’t turn to Daniel, either.

But none of them can go on pretending. Not after this.

Forget You Know Me exposes the wounds of people who’ve grown apart, against their will. Best friends, separated by miles. Spouses, hardened by neglect. A mother, isolated by pain. The man in the mask will change things for them all.

But who was he?

And will he be back?