Despite Natalie’s disapproval, she keeps firm in her decision to spend six months at the retreat. Passages from Kit’s perspective detail the journey that led her to Wisewood. The weather is not aiding her cause as a storm threatens her departure. She is also unnerved when she discovers someone has been in her room.

Natalie has the eerie sensation someone is watching her in her cabin and while on the retreat grounds. The people are reluctant to provide her any information about Kit nor will they direct her to Wisewood’s owner. Natalie is not exactly welcomed by the other members of the retreat. In hopes of bringing Kit back home, Natalie immediately sets off for the isolated island. She is also very concerned about Kit’s well-being. Despite their lack of contact, Natalie is not only worried her sister learning her secret. The sisters’ lives have been completely different with Natalie focusing on her career while Kit cannot quite seem to find her niche. Natalie has not heard from Kit since she went to Wisewood, a self-improvement retreat on an island off the coast of Maine. Natalie Collins is hard-working career woman who goes in search of her sister Kit after receiving a threatening email. This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel is a captivating mystery featuring two slightly estranged sisters.

But she’s about to learn that Wisewood won’t let either of them go without a fight. Panicked, Natalie hurries north to come clean to her sister and bring her home. Six months later Natalie receives a menacing e-mail from a Wisewood account threatening to reveal the secret she’s been keeping from Kit.

Natalie thinks it’s a bad idea, but Kit has had enough of her sister’s cynicism and voluntarily disappears off the grid. But the rules are for a good reason: to keep guests focused on achieving true fearlessness so they can become their Maximized Selves. During this time, they’re prohibited from contact with the rest of the world-no Internet, no phones, no exceptions. On a private island off the coast of Maine, Wisewood’s guests commit to six-month stays. She told Natalie she was sure there was something more out there. The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to crying in the shower about their dead mother. Natalie Collins hasn’t heard from her sister in more than half a year. We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours. Title: This Might Hurt by Stephanie WrobelĬomplimentary Review Copy Provided by Publisher Through NetGalleyįrom the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters-one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies.

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