The Last Cut

From the first color correction appointment to the final reveal, The Last Cut is a gripping psychological thriller filled with small-town Appalachian menace, three-stylist tension, and the kind of slow-creeping dread that makes you suspect everyone in the room. For readers who love hidden-narrator twists, female survivors who save themselves, and slow-burn suspense with a gut-punch reveal, this is a story built to keep them reading in a single breathless sitting._______________ Gap Road Beauty has three stylists. Ally, who took over the salon and can't afford for it to fail. Sabrina, who grew up here and knows every secret this town keeps. And Kacie, who came back when she should have stayed gone.When Morgan Webster starts coming in for color correction, she talks about the man she's falling for-Kyle Mercer, Keller's Gap born and raised. The salon goes quiet in a way it shouldn't.Morgan doesn't notice.Four years ago, a woman named Tessa Lowen told her sister she was going to Nashville. She never called back. The sheriff filed it as a runaway. Life went on.Now Morgan is missing too. Same explanation. Same paperwork. Same sheriff.Someone in that salon knew both women.You tell your stylist everything. Your fears, your plans, the man you love. You sit with your back to the door and your eyes in the mirror and you talk.One of them has been listening for years.Ally starts paying attention. Sabrina starts watching. And somewhere in the space between three women who work three feet apart, a truth has been hiding in plain sight-wearing the right face, saying the right things, waiting for the right moment.The gardenia lotion is on the counter. The shears are within reach.And not everyone who sits in that chair makes it home.