Where You End: A Novel

· Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Megan Tusing and Samantha Desz
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"Tusing keeps listeners' attention from the start. At first, her voice has the quality of an ingenue. Desz, as Jude, sounds dominating, subtle, and quietly terrifying. Their voices align beautifully, with a darkness that entices deeper listening, particularly when motivations aren't clear." —AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

“A perfectly paced, addictive thriller with a vicious twist.” —Paula Hawkins

From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut: an unusual form of amnesia upends the lives of identical twins, forcing them to face the indelible, dangerous shadow of the past.


When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Jude’s face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to make sense of things, she believes Jude will provide all the answers to her most pressing questions:

Who am I?
Where am I?
What actually happened?

Amid this tragedy, Jude sees an irresistible opportunity: she can give her sister a brand-new past, one worlds away from the lives they actually led. She spins tales of an idyllic childhood, exotic travels, and a bright future.

But if everything was so perfect, who are the mysterious people following Kat? And what explains her uncontrollable flashes of violent anger, which begin to jeopardize a sweet new romance?

Duped by the one person she trusted, Kat must try to untangle fact from fiction. Yet as she pulls at the threads of Jude’s elaborate tapestry, she has no idea of the catastrophe she’s inviting. At stake is not just the twins’ relationship, but their very survival.

Intensely creepy and beautifully written, Abbott Kahler’s Where You End is an unforgettable tale of intrigue, revenge, and the quest for redemption.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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4.0
2 reviews
Terri Chlapek
19 January 2024
3.5 Stars. I'm really not sure what to say about this audiobook. Thrillers are not my usual go-to genre, but I have been reading more lately. I know thrillers are often a bit confusing in that they don't want you to figure everything out right away, but the middle of this book was VERY confusing for me. It was like the author had dropped me into another story completely. The book was dual point of view and also a dual time line. The concept of one of identical twins having an accident and losing her memory and the other trying to fill it in was interesting. They had a questionable past and what Jude was willing to do to protect Kat from it was sisterly love. But as often happens, when Kat's memories start returning, they didn't give a true picture and Kat has to decide whether or not to believe her sister. The narrations by Megan Tusing and Samantha Desz were very good and helped to distinguish which identical twin was telling the chapter. Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the gifted copy. All thoughts are my own.
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Dirty Bad Bloggers
8 February 2024
This story was pretty unpredictable. It went in a completely different direction than I expected. There are a lot of awful characters and I felt nervous and uncomfortable a lot of the time but I was pleased with how it ended up. The narrators did a fantastic job.
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About the author

Abbott Kahler, formerly writing as Karen Abbott, is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City; American Rose; Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy; and The Ghosts of Eden Park, which was an Edgar Award finalist for best fact crime and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her next nonfiction book, Then Came the Devil, is forthcoming in 2025. She is also the host of Remus: The Mad Bootleg King, a forthcoming podcast from iHeartRadio about legendary Jazz Age bootlegger George Remus. A native of Philadelphia, she lives in New York City and in Greenport, New York, where she is at work on her next novel.

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