The old-money Wieland family has it all—wealth, fame, status, power.

They’re also, famously, cursed.

Clara and her brother Teddy grew up on Mount Desert Island, in the shadow of their parents’ tragic deaths, haunted by rumors and paparazzi. Fourteen years later, they’ve mostly put their turbulent past to rest. Teddy has married Clara’s best friend Jess, and the three of them have taken over the sprawling, remote family mansion known as Vantage Point. Then Teddy decides to run for Senate—an unnerving prospect made much worse when intimate videos of Clara are leaked online. The most frightening part is, she doesn't remember filming any of them. Are they real? Or are they deepfakes? Is someone trying to take down the Wielands once and for all?

Everyone around Clara thinks she’s losing her grasp on reality. But she knows the truth: years ago, the curse destroyed her parents. Now, it’s coming for her.

From the critically acclaimed author of Take Me Apart, Sara Sligar returns with another shocking, breathless novel of Gothic suspense. Named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice pick, Vantage Point is a twisted web of family secrets and political ambition, set against the rugged beauty of the Maine coast and raising urgent questions about the blurred lines between public and private personas and the nature of “truth” in our digital age.

Sara Sligar is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, Take Me Apart, was published by MCD in 2020. It was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. She holds a doctoral degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s of philosophy in modern European history from the University of Cambridge. Her second novel, Vantage Point, was published by MCD in January 2025.