You will never guess the ending

Am I pretty?


Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer?


While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a disturbing phone call from her father. Her brother was arrested, charged with murder.


Mary decides to go back to her hometown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, which she left twenty years back and has never visited since.


Working with her old friends in from High School, she tracks down the most disturbing and surprising killer this town has ever faced before a shocking conclusion turns everything upside down for them.


Determined to solve the murder and to have her brother acquitted, Mary is forced to face demons from her past she never thought she would have to again.

What Hurts the Most is a chilling, fast-paced story of the power of friendship, but also murder and revenge.

It's the first in Willow Rose's new series about Mary Mills and her childhood friends from Cocoa Beach. It is full of the twists and turns that Willow Rose is known and loved for by readers all over the world.