The Project is a pulls-no-punches story from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning author Courtney Summers, about an aspiring young journalist determined to save her sister no matter the cost.

The #1 Indie Next Pick and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award now in paperback with an exclusive bonus chapter.

BELIEVE HIM, BETRAY HER

1998: Six-year-old Bea doesnt want a sister but everything changes when Lo is born early. Small and frail, Lo needs someone to look out for her. Having a sister is a promise, Mom saysone Beas determined not to break.

2011: A car wreck, their parents dead. Lo wouldve died too if not for Lev Warren, the charismatic leader of The Unity Project. Hes going to change the world and after he saves Los life, Bea wants to commit to his extraordinary calling. Lev promises a place for the girls in the project, where no harm will ever come to them again . . . if Bea proves herself to him first.

2017: Lo doesnt know why Bea abandoned her for The Unity Project after the accident, but she never forgot what Bea said the last time they spoke: Well see each other again. Six years later, Lo is invited to witness the groups workings, meet with Lev, andshe hopesfinally reconnect with her sister. But Bea is long gone, and the only one who seems to understand the depths of this betrayal is Lev. If its family Lo wants, he can make her a new promise . . . if she proves herself to him first.

Powerful, suspenseful and heartbreaking, The Project follows two sisters who fall prey to the same cult leaderand their desperate fight back to one another.

Available now: I’M THE GIRL, the “brutally captivating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller from Courtney Summers, based loosely on The Epstein case and “not for the faint of heart” (The New York Times)