Pretty Dead Things (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250378842)

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 annual Lone Star Princess Pageant looms, bringing long-standing grudges to the surface. 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.

Some secrets are better left buried.

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
ISBN-10: 1250378842
ISBN-13: 9781250378842
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d