New York Times bestselling author Jessica Knoll’s latest novel Helpless, is a psychological thriller. Knoll is the bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young women.

Helpless is about a successful Hollywood producer who is kidnapped by the man who once knew her best- and the devastating secret that could destroy them both.

It’s been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding’s heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first intense love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him.

Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. Both of their lives have essentially gone to plan.

When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back in the campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. Something, if Faye is honest with herself, she has been trying to duplicate for years. But Henry is one of a kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended, and who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drinl, and even who drugs and kidnaps her.

When Faye comes to Henry’s remote mountain cabin, she’s beside herself. Has Henry brought her here to punish her? She did, after all, write and star in a lauded episode of television based on their indelicate appetites and vicious breakup. As her week of captivity unfolds, Henry’s wanton demands intensify, and a sprawling, years-old mystery begins to take shape – one that will rewrite history as Faye remembers it and reveal an astounding, cataclysmic truth.

Helpless by Jessica Knoll, Simon & Schuster, 320 pages.