When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two womena lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mothers best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their childrencollide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020.Reef Road is magnificent. It feels utterly real, a novel of deeply personal context. It swerves between truth and liesthe lies that lead to an even deeperand more devastatingtruth. Though pure fiction, it reads as compellingly as a mixture of memoir and expos. It has left me shaken to the core. Deborah Goodrich Royce writes with brilliant understanding of the mystery and occasional grace of trauma. Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author A young womans life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. In a nod to the true crime that inspired it, Deborah Goodrich Royces Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open, you wont be able to look away.