Riley Sager Home Before Dark, Survive The Night, The House Across The Lake & The Only One Left

This four-book set brings together four thrillers by Riley Sager: Home Before Dark, Survive the Night, The House Across the Lake and The Only One Left. Each story centres on a character drawn into unsettling events, from a family’s abrupt flight from a Victorian estate to a tense journey across the country with a stranger.

Across the collection, the narratives move between past and present, private fears and public headlines. A memoir revisits a short, traumatic stay at Baneberry Hall; a college ride share becomes shadowed by reports of the Campus Killer; a widowed actress watches a seemingly perfect couple from across a lake; and a woman long believed to be responsible for a massacre begins to share her account, one typed sentence at a time.

Included titles

• Home Before Dark
• Survive the Night
• The House Across the Lake
• The Only One Left

Key details

• Four-book collection by Riley Sager
• Includes Home Before Dark, Survive the Night, The House Across the Lake and The Only One Left
• Home Before Dark references a memoir titled House of Horrors
• Survive the Night features a ride share arranged via a college board

Synopses

Home Before Dark

Maggie Holt is accustomed to being asked about the house her family once lived in. Twenty-five years earlier, Maggie and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate. After three weeks, they fled in the dead of night, and Ewan later recounted the ordeal in a memoir called House of Horrors.

Survive the Night

Charlie Jordan is travelling across the country with Josh Baxter, a stranger she met through a college ride share board. Charlie suspects she may be in the car with a serial killer, though she is not certain. As they drive, they share stories while avoiding the news dominating the headlines: the Campus Killer, linked to three students who were tied up and stabbed over the course of a year, has struck again.

The House Across the Lake

Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher retreats to her family’s lake house in search of peace and quiet. She passes the time lost in thought and several bottles of bourbon. Her attention shifts to the glamorous couple across the lake, who appear perfect, much like Casey and her husband once did.

The Only One Left

Lenora Hope is widely believed to be a mass murderer. Decades after the Hope family was massacred, she was the only one left after that night. Mute, paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora has never been able to tell her side of the story, until her new live-in caregiver, Kit, brings her a typewriter and Lenora begins to type with one working finger: I want to tell you everything.