Woman Down

Colleen Hoover

Woman Down follows Petra Rose, a bestselling author whose career stalls after a viral backlash over a movie adaptation of her work leaves her broke and blocked. Desperate to finish her next book, she retreats to an isolated lakeside cabin, where a real-life detective who eerily resembles her unfinished main character shows up in the middle of the night. What starts as 'research' for her novel spirals into an obsessive, boundary-crossing affair that blurs the line between fiction and reality, with devastating consequences. It's a dark, twisty romantic-suspense standalone that leans harder into psychological thriller territory than Hoover's earlier romances.