JULY 2026 NEW RELEASE!

From New York Times Bestselling Author Keith Ablow

Alex Kane, a brilliant but deeply troubled hedge fund manager, has built a fortune predicting market movements—yet he is powerless to control the quiet collapse of his own life. Haunted by his father’s suicide, shaped by his mother’s alcoholism, and hollowed out by a success that feels increasingly meaningless, Kane reaches a breaking point. His marriage disintegrates. His partners force him out of the firm he built. And his beloved dog Abel—his last steady source of unconditional love—is dying. Alone and unraveling, Kane contemplates ending it all.

Instead, he conceives an audacious alternative: if his life feels broken beyond repair, he will rewrite it.

Enter Hank Kline, a once-celebrated Hollywood director now desperate for relevance. Kane hires him to stage an elaborate rebirth—a meticulously engineered existence in a small New England town, partly populated with actors, scripted encounters, and carefully orchestrated “coincidences” designed to manufacture meaning. Armed with a new name and altered appearance, Kane steps into the role of his own reinvention.

But immersion carries risks. As fabricated moments begin to feel disturbingly authentic, the boundary between performance and reality dissolves. Memories intrude. Control slips. And Kane must confront a dangerous question: can a man truly escape his past—or will every story, no matter how carefully rewritten, bend back toward its original ending?

Praise for Keith Ablow

"Fascinating" —The New York Times (Compulsion) 

“Great psychological suspense.” —Harlan Coben, New York Times Bestselling Author for Compulsion

“Utterly compelling . . .” Tess Gerritsen, NY Times Bestselling Author for Compulsion 

"Keith Ablow is king of the psychological thriller." —Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River

“This is a deliciously creepy psychological thriller. Denial is a start and terrifying journey into the mind of the criminally insane, an absolutely spellbinding and shocking tale.” —Nelson DeMille, author of By the Rivers of Babylon for Denial

Keith Ablow is the New York Times bestselling author of Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson, and The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life (co-authored by Glenn Beck)