No One Needs to Know

PRAISE FORJUST ONE LOOK“[A] wild ride of a novel…[Just One Look is] a delicious and marvelously controlled portrayal of one woman’s delusions, and how they undo her, but also create something new and whole.”—The New York Times Book Review“Fresh, fun, and totally wicked…a sharp, modern thrill ride with a witty heroine.”—Entertainment Weekly“I inhaled Just One Look. I was going to read one chapter, then one chapter became the whole thing because it felt like HBO’s Enlightened meets Patricia Highsmith’s This Sweet Sickness. YUM.”—CAROLINE KEPNES, New York Times bestselling author of the You series“Bitingly modern and totally addictive, Just One Look is a juicy entry into the unhinged-women canon. I loved it—it’s propulsive, surprising, and deeply creepy. With wry prose and deliciously wicked twists, Lindsay Cameron’s suspense debut is the freshest take on stalker fiction since You.”—ANDREA BARTZ, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Never Here“Lindsay Cameron has penned a relentlessly gripping and cunning tale of the new Pandora’s box—the inbox. Just One Look had me promising: just one more chapter, just one more page, just one, until—oops—I was done.”—CHANDLER BAKER, New York Times bestselling author of The Husbands“Lindsay Cameron’s thriller will appeal to fans of You, in that readers get a glimpse inside the head of someone willing to go to extreme lengths for what they want….Nothing and no one are as they seem in this thriller about envy, obsession, class, stalking, and revenge.”—Oprah Daily“Will leave you chilled to the bone.”—PopSugar“[This] is a highly entertaining narrative that positively sparkles with wit and insight into the mind of a young woman with much promise, hobbled by self-doubt yet insanely pursuing an impossible dream. This is the author’s suspense debut, and it succeeds wildly. Highly recommended for all collections.”—Booklist (starred review)“You will be obsessed after the first paragraph. Lindsay Cameron has created an unforgettable character that beckons from the page until you’ve devoured every last word. A delicious and irresistible read!”—LIV CONSTANTINE, internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish“Lindsay Cameron takes obsession to a whole new level and I am here for it! With each twist, Just One Look becomes more intriguing, more shocking, and more fascinating. Once you pick it up, settle in for the night because you won’t be able to put it down.”—SAMANTHA DOWNING, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It“Gripping, darkly funny, and razor-sharp, Just One Look is a brilliant suspense debut. With a multifaceted, No One Needs to Know is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Copyright © 2023 by Lindsay CameronRandom House Book Club copyright © 2023 by Penguin Random House LLC.All rights reserved.Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.BANTAM BOOKS is a registered trademark and the B colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.ISBN 9780593159101Ebook ISBN 9780593159095randomhousebooks.comBook design by Alexis Capitini, adapted for ebookCover design and handlettering: Pete GarceauCover image: © Travel Wild/Getty Imagesep_prh_6.1_143545442_c0_r1 ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightEpigraphPrologueChapter One: HeatherChapter Two: NorahChapter Three: HeatherChapter Four: PoppyChapter Five: HeatherChapter Six: HeatherChapter Seven: PoppyChapter Eight: PoppyChapter Nine: PoppyChapter Ten: HeatherChapter Eleven: NorahChapter Twelve: NorahChapter Thirteen: NorahChapter Fourteen: HeatherChapter Fifteen: NorahChapter Sixteen: PoppyChapter Seventeen: PoppyChapter Eighteen: HeatherChapter Nineteen: PoppyChapter Twenty: NorahChapter Twenty-one: PoppyChapter Twenty-two: PoppyChapter Twenty-three: Crofton ParentsChapter Twenty-four: HeatherChapter Twenty-five: HeatherChapter Twenty-six: HeatherChapter Twenty-seven: PoppyChapter Twenty-eight: HeatherChapter Twenty-nine: NorahChapter Thirty: HeatherChapter Thirty-one: PoppyChapter Thirty-two: HeatherChapter Thirty-three: PoppyChapter Thirty-four: NorahChapter Thirty-five: NorahChapter Thirty-six: MayaDedicationAcknowledgmentsA Book Club GuideAlso by Lindsay CameronAbout the Author_143545442_ “If you want validation, use your social media. If you want discretion, then turn to UrbanMyth. Your secrets are safe with us.”—Press release, UrbanMyth app launchIt was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms, an anonymous social media app organized by neighborhood. All you needed to create an account was an email. No profile. No username. No way to track your identity. The anonymity worked like truth serum. We disclosed things there we would never discuss with our best friends or even our spouses. Especially not our spouses.We bared our secrets.It was supposed to be confidential.And PrologueBEFORE IT HAPPENED, I never noticed how many times a day an emergency vehicle drove past my apartment building. Their sirens blended in with the cacophony of New York City, an ambient noise that never roused my attention. Today, though, I knew with absolute certainty that the wail emanating from the street below was the second police siren I’d heard in the past six hours. Instinctively, my ears now detected the shrill sound, the way a deer detects the snap of a twig beneath a hunter’s boot.A signal of imminent danger.My body stilled, attempting to clock the proximity