Cross My Heart: A Novel

By Megan Collins and Megan Collins

Book Overview

"Part (possible) murder mystery, part deep dive into out-of-control social media addiction, and part sleight-of-hand trick by the author...terrific." --The New York Times

The author of The Family Plot brings her signature "taut, emotionally charged, and propulsive" (Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author) prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor's husband.

She has his wife's heart; the one she wants is his.

Rosie Lachlan wants nothing more than to find The One.

A year after she was dumped in her wedding dress, she's working at her parents' bridal salon, anxious for a happy ending that can't come soon enough. After receiving a life-saving heart transplant, Rosie knows her health is precious and precarious. She suspects her heart donor is Daphne Thorne, the wife of local celebrity author Morgan Thorne, who she begins messaging via an anonymous service called DonorConnect, ostensibly to learn more about Daphne. But Rosie has a secret: She's convinced that now that she has his wife's heart, she and Morgan are meant to be together.

As she and Morgan correspond, the pretense of avoiding personal details soon disappears, even if Rosie's keeping some cards close to her chest. But as she digs deeper into Morgan's previous marriage, she discovers disturbing rumors about the man she's falling for. Could Morgan have had something to do with his late wife's death? And can Rosie's heart sustain another break--or is she next?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668048078
• ISBN13: 9781668048078
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Rosie-Colored Glasses!

Rosie-colored glasses. Stalkers? Hearts. So good at sending you down one path only to pull the carpet out from under you and send you down a completely different one! I enjoyed the turns, the discovering, the details until the last second. Chapter lengths were perfect. The flow was smooth. The main character was a bit annoying but in the best way - in a way that the story needed. The supporting characters, a beautiful complement. Do I recommend this, yes, I do! Let the mystery unfold! Disclaimer: this ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Nicely Twisty

This thriller has some very nice twists! The first part, going back and forth between Morgan's and Rosie's viewpoints with the real life interactions and supposedly anonymous DonorConnect messages really ramp up the suspense, and the creepy factor because something is definitely not right with their relationship. What with Rosie and how she tends to see things through her "Rosie tinted glasses" and how both Morgan and Rosie are keeping secrets about their pasts, it makes for a great twist halfway through, leaving the reader going "what!?" And after that is twist after twist and so many plausible suspects that I kept being blown away by each new revelation. This was a fun book to read with all the twists and unreliable narrators (because Rosie sure rewrites her past and loves her Rosie tinted glasses, plus Morgan is an author that writes his own versions, twisting reality to fit what he wants) and I had a good time with it.