

Tessa discovers early in the novel that her father is dying in prison. Tessa doesn't feel she has any reason to return to Fayette – unfortunately, fate has other plans for her. Besides that, Tessa's father is in prison, and her mother and sister left her to be raised by her haughty grandmother, who barely provides a comfortable home for her. Having had a falling out with her former best friend, Callie, she has no desire to return to the town where she witnessed the brutal murder of her cousin Lori. Now, eighteen years old and living in Florida, Tessa has no desire to return to Fayette. The novel opens, it has been ten years since Tessa Lowell left her hometown of Fayette, Pennsylvania. A thriller for young adult and adult readers, Kara Thomas’s The Darkest Corners begins as eighteen-year-old Tessa and her best friend, Callie, reunited by the terminal illness of Tessa's father, are forced to reckon with the events of their past and their own potentially faulty memories.
