Ivy Seidel is an aspiring author, working as a bartender, as she attempts to sell her first short story. When a friend suddenly leaves New York for California, she takes over his position teaching creative writing to the inmates at an upstate prison, thinking that maybe the job will provide with some much needed life experience.

Instead, she is magnetically drawn to one of the inmates in her class, a man who shows a talent for putting words together in a way that Ivy knows is real talent. As she delves into the man’s life, attempting to learn more about what led him to prison and trying to find a context for the stories he is writing in her class, Ivy is drawn into something much larger than she is able to handle and she begins to cross lines that she didn’t think herself capable of.

Ivy is a tremendously likable protagonist, even as she does things that make you want to stop her. The reader can see the trouble she is headed for even when she cannot. All of the characters in the novel are expertly drawn and the plot is rock solid tight. The suspense builds throughout the book as Ivy lets her actions spin her own life out of control and the story is not truly over until the very last sentence of the book, a trick that could come off clumsily, but Abrahams handles skillfully.

Very simply put - End of Story is one of the best suspense novels to hit shelves in the last few years.