Cross My Heart

New hardcover to be released 1/14/25. Will be signed by the author, and includes exclusive stickers! If you would like your book personalized: add desired name in the Comment section at check out.

You may pick up your book during our Book Launch Event: Megan Collins in conversation with Caitlin Francis 1/14/25 6pm at Evergreen Crossings, South Windsor, CT

She has his dead wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature “taut, emotionally charged, and propulsive” (Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author) prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.

Rosie Lachlan wants nothing more than to find The One.

A year after she was dumped in her wedding dress, she’s working at her parents’ bridal salon, anxious for a happy ending that can’t come soon enough. After receiving a life-saving heart transplant, Rosie knows her health is precious and precarious. She suspects her heart donor is Daphne Thorne, the wife of local celebrity author Morgan Thorne, and begins messaging him via an anonymous service called DonorConnect, ostensibly to learn more about Daphne. But Rosie has a secret: She’s convinced that now that she has his wife’s heart, she and Morgan are meant to be together.

As she and Morgan correspond, the pretense of avoiding personal details soon disappears, even if Rosie’s keeping some cards close to her chest. But as she digs deeper into Morgan’s previous marriage, she discovers disturbing rumors about the man she’s falling for. Could Morgan have had something to do with his late wife’s death? And can Rosie’s heart sustain another break—or is she next?

Praise for Cross My Heart

“Part love story, part thriller, Cross My Heart is a sharply clever, highly entertaining, shifting kaleidoscope of a mystery.”

—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Like Mother, Like Daughter

“When Rosie Lachlan's heart transplant leads her to her donor’s husband, a renowned crime fiction author, she thinks she’s finally found 'the one’…but will Rosie’s longing for true love blind her to the suspicious nature of his wife’s death? It’s rare to find a thriller that strikes a perfect balance between mystery and emotional complexity, but that’s the magic of Cross My Heart. Expect relentless tension, skillful misdirection, poet-worthy prose, and one of the best binge-reading sessions of your life. Megan Collins has outdone herself, and Cross My Heart is a triumph."

—Tessa Wegert, author of The Coldest Case

• Publisher: ‎Atria Books (January 14, 2025)
• Hardcover: ‎320 pages