The Only One Left

The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it.

Now in 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion that was the scene of the decades ago crime and where the aging Lenora still resides. In her seventies, mute, and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. And Kit also starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.