# A Twist of Fate - Hardcover

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by **Se-Ah Jang** (Author), **S. L. Park** (Translator)

**Two women meet on a train. Each is running from a deadly secret. When one disappears, the other decides to take her place--for better, or for worse.**

A _CRIMEREADS_ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Jae-Young has just left everything she's ever known, not that it was much: her thankless job, her infested apartment, and her abusive boyfriend--who happens to be dead on the kitchen floor. Murder was never the way she envisioned leaving, but times were desperate. Now on a train to the bustling city of Seoul, Jae-Young is hoping to escape her transgressions and just become invisible--safe.

On the train, she meets a chatty mother fleeing with her infant son from an unfaithful husband and hoping to find refuge with the in-laws she's never met. To avoid further conversation, Jae-Young excuses herself for a moment. When she returns, the woman is nowhere to be found. But her crying child remains with a note, pleading with Jae-Young to take him to his father's family in a remote province far from Seoul. It's not an ideal pit stop, but for the sake of the child, she can't ignore the request.

When Jae-Young arrives, the house takes her by surprise. It's a gated manor oozing with opulence and the finest luxuries--the kind of place she could only dream of setting foot in. What's more, the family assumes Jae-Young is their daughter-in-law and invites her to stay. She imagines an easy life in their care, free of worry and fear. And Jae-Young realizes: There's nothing more invisible than becoming someone else.

But both women have ghosts in their pasts. Though unaware of the rot lurking beneath the shiny veneer of her new life, Jae-Young will do whatever it takes to make sure she never goes back.

### Author Biography

**Se-Ah Jang** has worked as a marketer for a luxury brand and is now running a book review channel, Love-or-Hate Prescriptions for Readers. She writes under multiple pseudonyms and covers a variety of genres, from web novels to fashion photo books. _A Twist of Fate_ is her first full-length novel published under this name. It was selected as a book-to-film project by South Korea's biggest bookstore, Kyobo, and was optioned for film only weeks after its original publication.

**S. L. Park** is the translator of _If YouLive to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy_ by Rhee Kun Hoo. Her work has won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize and the _Writer's Digest_ fiction award. Under her full name, she has also written one poetry collection and a forthcoming chapbook. Born and raised in South Korea, Park holds a bachelor of arts in English from New York University and a master of fine arts in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. Her translations of Korean literature have appeared in the _Cincinnati Review,_ the _Los Angeles Review,_ and the _New England Review,_ among others.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** July 29, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 37.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Suspense, Thrillers, Women

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