After All I've Done For You

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About After All I've Done For You

Jamie Berringer has spent twenty years teaching her students how stories work. How narrators lie. How plots conceal themselves. How the smallest detail can change everything. She should have paid closer attention. Affinity Preparatory School certainly was. When the luxurious, elite academy recruits Jamie for what appears to be the opportunity of a lifetime, she mistakes it for reinvention — a fresh start after a year of grief, and the slow creep of irrelevancy. It never occurs to her that Affinity recruited her for a story of its own. Affinity tracks everything. Every arrival. Every absence. Every assignment. Every conversation. Then the messages begin. Handwritten. Intimate. Impossible. Someone knows her secrets. Someone knows her family. Someone knows things about the dead that the living were never supposed to discover. As accusations spread online and anonymous gifts appear everywhere, Jamie finds herself trapped inside a narrative she doesn't understand. Her friends and colleagues are hiding something. Her husband is drifting further away. Her students know more than they should. And the school's invisible reach extends far beyond its manicured campus. Because Affinity isn't simply watching her...It's rewriting her. The deeper Jamie digs, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Someone has been shaping her narrative from the beginning. But then — Jamie would think that, wouldn't she? Every writer has a story. Hers is writing back. For fans of Alice Feeney, Donna Tarte, and Agatha Christie...who like their stories served with a twist.

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