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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 17, 2025

As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end.

She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the professor dead. Because she was the one who killed him.

Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes clear that no matter how many years have gone by, she can’t escape her past.

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REVIEW:SOMEONE KNOWS by Vi Keeland is a contemporary, adult, thriller focusing on thirty-seven year old English professor Elizabeth Davis.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from first person perspective (Elizabeth) with one final chapter by Noah, using present day, memories and email chapters, SOMEONE KNOWS focuses on Elizabeth’s search for the truth. Approximately twenty years earlier, at age seventeen, Elizabeth’s life imploded when she was forced into an affair, and groomed by a married man, someone who was in a position of power but when an unknown student begins submitting chapters from a book detailing Elizabeth’s life, our heroine begins to spiral in the face of decades long secrets and lies. Fast forward to present day, Elizabeth returns to her home town in Louisiana, to discover all was not well: Elizabeth’s mother is ill, and the tight knit group of parishioners and friends have Elizabeth on edge with what they could possibly know. Having been befriended by a man ten years her junior, Elizabeth begins an affair in her home town only to discover, their introduction had been predicated upon a lie.

SOMEONE KNOWS is a detailed, complex and twisted story of betrayal and vengeance, secrets and lies, power and control, dysfunctional family dynamics. From addiction and abuse to mental illness and murder, and the righteousness of religious beliefs, we are up close and personal with the lives destroyed by one man, and his lecherous need to extinguish young minds.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn’t change for the world. She is an attorney and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Best Selling author. Over the last three years, ten of her titles have appeared on the USA Today Bestseller lists and three on the New York Times Bestseller lists.