In the StoryThe Guest List
Three guests remember a different groom. By dawn, one of them is dead. In the Hebrides, a wedding gathers families, friends, and deeply personal versions of happiness. When incompatible memories join the celebration, the differences no longer concern only what people know about the couple. They concern the very man about to make his vows.
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The list still bore the marks of her fingers. She realized she had memorized the eighty-seven names, the eight absentees, the two last-minute additions, and the fact that Theo Grant was sleeping in the gamekeeper’s former bedroom at the end of the north corridor. It took no effort. Tables calmed her. Tables promised that a world could be held in columns as long as you knew where to look.Read the excerpt ↗