Two women named Sara each get into a rideshare but only one makes it home alive. Was it the right Sara? Law student Saraswati “Sara” Bhaduri holds down two jobs and a scholarship in order to make her way through school, but it’s still a struggle. She’s had to do things to pay the bills that most people wouldn’t expect from “a nice Indian girl.” At the end of Sara’s shift at the local campus bar, her boss tells her to deal with a drunk girl in the bathroom. Sara helps the girl outside and the two share a brief conversation, where they learn they have the same name, and form a brief kinship despite their different circumstances. Sara and Sarah Ellis both order rideshares home. Exhausted from the late shift, Sara falls asleep in the car and wakes up on the wrong side of town—the wealthy side. She realizes she and Sarah had mistakenly taken each other’s rides. Broke, she’s forced to walk home, only to discover on arrival that the other Sarah has been killed on her doorstep. Was it supposed to be Sarah Ellis or Sara Bhaduri who died? And why would anyone want them dead? In this smart, twisty novel about ambition, wealth and dangerous longing, the layers are peeled back on two young women desperate to break out of the expectations placed on them, with devastating results.

Issued also in electronic format.