The Only One Left

At seventeen, Lenora Hope was at the center of the Hope family murders on the Maine coast in 1929. The killings became a schoolyard chant and a public assumption that Lenora was responsible, though police never proved it. She never spoke publicly about that night and has not left Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End after Lenora’s previous nurse fled. Now in her seventies and confined to a wheelchair after strokes, Lenora taps sentences on an old typewriter and offers to tell Kit everything, insisting, "It wasn’t me." As Kit helps Lenora write, suspicious details about the predecessor and Lenora’s account begin to surface.