You Belong Here - A Novel

By: Megan Miranda

Published by Scribner, 2026-05-05

From master of suspense Megan Miranda, the “supercharged atmospheric” (Booklist, starred review) campus thriller and psychological suspense novel featuring a decades-old secret that haunts a mother and her college-bound daughter.

Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Her roots there were strong: Beckett’s parents taught at the college, and she never imagined studying anywhere else—until a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again.

For the last two decades, Beckett has done her best to stay away. But when her daughter, Delilah, secretly applies to Wyatt College and earns a full scholarship, Beckett can only hope her fears are unfounded. Deep down she knows that Wyatt Valley has a long memory, and that both the past and present timelines hold dangers—and that some secrets never stay buried.

A gripping atmospheric suspense novel with a chilling twist ending, You Belong Here is a must-read psychological thriller from a writer Entertainment Weekly calls “a master of cleverly constructed thrillers.”