Books for Coffee September '25: She Didn't Stand a Chance

By: Stacie Grey

Trade Paperback 368 pages Fiction / Thrillers

Summary: Gertie hasn't seen her siblings for more than twenty years. They've all stayed in touch, while she's on the outside. But now that their father is gone, the family is getting back together...and someone isn't getting out alive.

Gertie hasn't seen her siblings for more than twenty years. Now, she's back at the family home she barely remembers, summoned there to witness the reading of her father's will. Shockingly, Gertie stands to inherit a substantial portion of the family business and her father's coveted Palm Springs home. And no one is more surprised—and angry—about Gertie's inclusion in the will than her sisters and brothers.

Trapped in a house that doesn't feel like home with siblings that don't feel like family, Gertie begins to realize that she's isolated in more ways than one. And when questions about how exactly her father died start to arise, and a member of the household staff dies in what seems to be an accident but might be something else, she realizes that she'll be lucky to get out of this unexpected family reunion alive.