The Pact Picoult, Jodi

Emily Gold and Chris Harte grew up next door to each other, inseparable since birth, lovers since high school. Then one night, Emily is found dead in her boyfriend's arms — a single gunshot wound to the head, his gun beside them. Chris swears it was a suicide pact that he couldn't follow through with. The families who once shared everything are torn apart. Was it really suicide, or something darker? Picoult dissects the aftermath with surgical precision, moving between courtroom drama and the intimate history of two families who thought they knew everything about each other. She asks the hardest questions: How well can you ever really know someone? And what happens when love isn't enough to save them? For readers who want their domestic dramas laced with moral ambiguity and legal tension.