As a child, Oliva was Arden Maynor. The girl that sleepwalked and was washed into the drain pipes during a terrible storm. It was a miracle that she was found d 3 days later, hanging onto a drain for dear life. Almost 20 years later, she has changed her name to avoid the press and novelty of being the girl from Widow Hills. She has a fairly normal life now, until she suddenly starts sleep walking again and begins to feel like she is being watched. Is there more to the story?

This book had me on the edge of my seat without question! First of all, I cannot imagine what Arden went through as a child. Not only the trauma of the accident, but the massive amount of press coverage after the fact. Not to mention the pressure of people feeling you owed them something because they helped in the search for you or donated money. If I was her I would 100% have done the same and changed my name. Secondly, what is with all these messed up mother/daughter stories recently? I feel like I have read so many of them recently, is it a new trend or am I just noticing it now? Not that I mind, I am all for it! I highly recommend grabbing a copy of this one when it comes out on June 23rd, it was fantastic!

Megan Miranda is one of those authors who's books I always tear into even without knowing anything about the premise. The Girl from Widow Hills really delivered with a few twists that, much to my pleasant surprise, I was unable to figure out until their reveal. I love a good thriller but I also love good character development and the way Megan Miranda uses different methods of storytelling (transcripts, news reports, etc) to piece the story of Olivia's past together was really interesting to me. I always get creepy, atmospheric vibes from her writing and I think this would make an awesome vacation read for any mystery lover this summer!

Wow! This was a really great book! It is very rare for me to find a Thriller where I don't figure out the ending very early on in the book. However, this book kept me guessing until the very last chapter! The story sucked me in from the very first page and didn't let me go until the very last word was read. If you are not already a Megan Miranda fan prior to reading this book, you will be when you are done with it!

Many thanks to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster, and to Megan Miranda for the privilege of reading an advanced copy of this fabulous book.

I really enjoyed this book. I could not stop reading. Megan Miranda is a very talented writer. I thought I had the killer figured out early but I was so wrong!! Lots of other very interesting twists and turns. Readers will love this book. Thank you for the early copy of this great book.

Megan Miranda is back with another page-turning thriller in The Girl from Widow Hills. This book kept me captivated from start to finish - and oh, what a finish! This story opens with Olivia living her best life in North Carolina. A new home, a rewarding job in hospital administration, Olivia is finding her way and opening herself up to new relationships. Has Olivia finally been able to shake her past?

Olivia grew up as Arden Maynor, a child who was swept away while sleepwalking during a rainstorm. Lost for three days, Arden is later found and reunited with her mother. Fame and nonstop media coverage followed, including a book documenting the entire story by her mother. Known forever in the media as the Girl from Widow Hills, Arden changes her identity and begins a new life as Olivia. While Arden hasn’t experienced episode of sleep walking since childhood, strange things begin to happen. Her mother’s death and the feeling of being watched plague her, but when she wakes up outside her house, her hands covered in blood and dead body at her feet, she panics. Has her past finally found her?

This is wear the real story begins. Not knowing who she can trust, you are right along on the journey with Olivia as she unearths her past and slowly discovers the truth about the little girl from Widow Hills. I didn’t see this end coming and that’s what I love about a good thriller! This book will be released on June 23rd and highly recommend picking up a copy. It’s 5 star good ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This was a psychological thriller about a woman who is trying to escape the trauma and media attention she received from a childhood accident. Arden was 6 years old when her “supposed” sleepwalking took her outdoors during a storm in which she was swept away. Three days later, she is rescued from a storm drain and becomes a media story..
As an adult, Arden changes her name and relocated to try to reclaim her life and get away from the spotlight. Soon her past starts to catch up with her in this novel of twists and turns.
This book was a quick read, but some parts felt a bit unbelievable, especially in light of her new life and identity. All in all, it was entertaining and kept me guessing until the very end.

A mystery and thriller all wrapped into a nicely written package that will keep readers engaged and guessing until the last chapter.

It took me some time to get into this book. About 2/3 in, I really began to like it. Yes, it took awhile It was a two star...then moved up to a three....then a 3.5 where I absolutely could not put it down. It is a thriller about a young woman whose past tragedy comes back to visit her.

Thank you to Simon & Schuster and Net Galley for letting me read this as an advanced copy to let me give an honest review.

When your old way of being is being compromised........reinvent yourself.

Olivia Meyer shed the skin of her past and donned a new one. Memories of her childhood were scratching from the inside and causing unspeakable emotional pain. She's no longer the six year old Arden Maynor from Widow Hills, Kentucky. That little girl was swept away in a drainage pipe during a terrible storm. She was missing for three days until she was found clinging to a grate for dear life.

The story of Arden made the news far and wide twenty years ago. Both mother and daughter were hounded by the media for details of her terrifying experience. Arden had no memory of what had happened and how she was able to survive. Nothing meshed within her mind. Consequently, Arden and her mother moved to Ohio to avoid the constant stress. Upon entering the university in North Carolina, Arden changed her name legally to Olivia Meyer.

After graduate school, Olivia signed on as a hospital administrator in Central Valley. This was quite a position for one so young at twenty-six. Olivia bought a small house in the country next door to seventy year old Rick who keeps an eye out for her. Because of her previous life, Olivia has a tendency to sleep walk from the trauma. Rick doesn't know the details, but he does hover over her.

As the story opens, we find Olivia being woke by the sound of her cell phone. At least, that's what she thinks. But somehow she finds herself out on her front lawn in the dark of night. Confused and so out of place, Olivia trips over something large sprawled out in front of her. As she looks down, Olivia realizes it's the body of a man covered in blood. She runs next door to Rick who verifies her worst nightmare. They call the police, but not before Rick picks up a weapon on the ground. He's not sure if Olivia did something very, very bad.

I've enjoyed quite a few novels by Megan Miranda. The girl can write like nobody's business. I did set The Girl from Widow Hills as a 3.5 kicked up to 4 stars. There are a lot of pigeon holes in this one with an abundance of characters who may or may not be crucial to the plot. It's this sorting through possibilities that heightens the unknown, but it also sets in a bit of reader fatigue. Miranda does drop sizeable breadcrumbs along the way leading to a twisty ending. Perhaps Reese Witherspoon may take it from her bookclub to the big screen. Now there's a tasty thought........

I received a copy of this novel through NetGalley for an honest review. My thanks to Simon & Schuster and to Megan Miranda for the opportunity.

I like Megan Miranda's book usually. This one just felt slow and repetitive which made it hard to really get into and keep focused on. A lot of flashbacks and reports just felt like they repeated themselves and pulled you a bit out of the story.

Twenty years have passed since Arden Maynor was swept away while sleepwalking during a rainstorm in her town of Widow Hills, Kentucky. The story of the six year old’s survival kept her and her mother in the spotlight.

Arden (now Olivia) has moved on to escape her past and what details she can recall from those harrowing days.

I really enjoyed this book. I found it to be an easy read (which I appreciate) while also commanding my attention. I liked the fact the story took place in Kentucky, my home state. There were times I thought I had the storyline figured out but to my surprise there would be another twist.

Thank you to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster and Megan Miranda for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my review.

Olivia (Arden Maynor) suffered a traumatic event when she was only six years of age. She was trapped during a rainstorm for three days before she was found and rescued.

Since those days, everyone has wanted a piece of Liv's story through her childhood, teenage years and young adulthood. To start over, after college, she changed her name. She moved and currently she works in the administration office of a hospital.

Her childhood marked her. She doesn't like closed-in spaces. She remains leery of giving any details from her past to anyone, including her friend Bennett and lately, her new friend Elyse. Liv broke up her relationship with Jonah, her ex, who was a professor at the school but she never told him about her past. Every year during the anniversary of her rescue, she feels her body tensing and waiting for something to happen. For someone from her past to find her. For her life to become one more nightmare.

Liv's disappearance as a child was thought to be due to her sleepwalking. Then, it starts happening again. One night, Liv wakes up outside her new house without recollection of how she got there. She's terrified her sleepwalking is back. She's so scared when her neighbor, an older man, finds her. Rick used to be the owner of the house she's currently occupying. The next night she sleepwalks is not her neighbor who wakes her up, but it's her tripping over a dead body outside her property line.

Who is the man dead outside her property? Who killed him? Did she do it? Did her neighbor do it? Or is someone else out there lurking and trying to harm her?

The Girl from Widow Hills is the third book I read by Megan Miranda. I have liked her other two and I find myself enjoying this one too. The narrative starts slow but the pace changes by the last third of the book. I was invested in learning about both mysteries. What really happened to the six-year-old Arden and who was trying to hurt her now. I do wish the ending was more detailed and I felt that an epilogue was missing. Anyway, I still enjoyed the hours of distraction Megan Miranda gave me.

Cliffhanger: No

4/5 Fangs

A complimentary copy was provided by Simon and Schuster via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

OK holy freaking crap this book was fantastic.
I can't say much without giving spoilers. So I'm just going to say that this was intense and truly expertly written. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and the whole story truly surprised me. That almost never happens anymore.
This is the perfect read for a stormy day. Curl up with a blanket and get ready to have your jaw drop.

The Girl from Widow Hills is another hit thriller from Megan Miranda. The story follows Olivia Meyer, who had been lost as a child after sleepwalking one night, but was miraculously found alive three days later. Olivia has moved far away from her hometown in hopes of escaping her past as Arden Meyer, but is directly confronted with it when a dead body is found on her property line.

I really felt for Olivia as our main character. Often, I have conflicting feelings about Miranda's main characters, because they have flaws that become that much more apparent as the story developed. With Olivia, I trusted her narration in a way that I normally don't with Miranda's main characters, but I still questioned Olivia's decision-making and judgments such that the story never felt predictable. In fact, I never saw the end coming.

As much as I loved the book, I wish that the story had revealed more about Olivia's high school and college experiences. They seemed formative for her especially, and I wish we as readers could have learned more about those experiences and relationships, which were mentioned in passing but never fully discussed. Specifically, I would have loved to learn more about her relationship with her mother and her previous significant other.

Ultimately, I'd highly recommend this book to all thriller readers. Megan Miranda never fails us.

I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review. I've read most of Megan Miranda's novels and the thing I like is that there is no formula, they are all different, so they are unpredictable and difficult to guess what happens, which makes for intense reading.

You really need to carefully pay attention to the beginning of the book for clues. Because it's tricky and I was guessing the whole time. It seemed like there were random characters and elements thrown in the mix, but they all make sense in the end. When children experience trauma, they block out painful memories. As Arden accepted the story that was told to her, then the media came after her and she changed her name, but she couldn't run from her past forever. This book was a great distraction from what's going on right now. I would definitely buy this book, because libraries are closed but it's worth the buy.

Reading this book was opening a box which led to another box which led yet to another box. As the boxes pile up, you feel as if you'e not making any progress, until finally information begins to seep into the boxes. The author leads readers on a twisted journey. A woman trying to escape her past, yet the past refuses to die. The suspense was good, the ending was a stretch. I didn't care for Arden/Olivia. I thought she was passive and not all that observant. It was a decent read, but the only character I liked was Rick.

Holy crap. What a wild ride.
As always with Megan Miranda, this was no different than her previous titles. It was fast-paced, always had a secret lurking around the corner, and was impossible to put down. As per usual, I read the book at lightning speed, unable to stop reading it for anything.
The story was gripping - a woman who has recovered from a traumatic event in her childhood, being forced to remember the situation that has caused her so much grief up until that moment.
An event that shaped her life and forced her to change her name, her identity, and leave everything behind.
This book was wonderful. I could not stop wondering about the characters in the book and found a twist to the story every few pages. Sometimes well known authors have a bit of a struggle living up to their hype, but Megan Miranda has done it again and caused me to disappear into her story’s universe once again.
Highly recommend.

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the fourth book by Megan Miranda that I have read and it is also my favorite. This was a fast-paced and exciting read. I constantly wanted to know where it was going and while I did see one of the “twists” coming, one of them did surprise me.

I think what worked so well with this book was the “flashback” vignette-style pieces. They added to the narration of the story and really put things into perspective at the end of the book.

I can wait to see what Megan Miranda has in store next.

Arden Maynor was just six years old when she was sleepwalking and was swept away by a rainstorm. The town searched for her for days and on day three she was finally found clutching to a storm drain. It was a miracle that she lived and she soon became famous because of her story. Now twenty years later Arden, now Olivia, is living far away from Widow Hills trying to live a normal life. However, one night Olivia wakes up having been sleepwalking again and finds a dead body at her feet. She has no idea who this is or what happened, but now she’ll be back in the news and the truth about who she is may come out.

The plot of this sounded so interesting, a six year old goes missing in a flash flood and is found in a storm drain days later. Then the same girl finds a dead body in her yard years later. Unfortunately this wasn’t as exciting as it sounded. It was a bit slow for a good chunk of the story. I’d say the last 10% really picked up but the rest was slow.

I did find Olivia interesting and she is a true survivor. She has gone through a lot in her life and has come out of it as a better person. You get to follow her life now while also reading articles and interviews that go back to when she was missing so you follow along with that story as well. The side characters were enjoyable and the twists were good and not ones I expected.

I’ve enjoyed Megan Miranda’s other books and I’m sad this one fell short for me but I think it’s still worth reading if it sounds interesting to you!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This started off slow but once it got going I couldn’t put it down. This book had me creeped out, looking over my shoulder, and huddled down on the couch at some parts- something that hasn’t happened to me in awhile. Great twists with an ending I didn’t expect. There was some repetition that I found myself skipping over and the ending while surprising was rushed and I wanted more answers.