The Stalker Becomes the Stalked in ‘When I Kill You’ — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

What happens in a world where the stalker becomes the stalked?

Bestselling author B. A. Paris asks just that in her upcoming suspense novel, When I Kill You, arriving on bookshelves on Feb. 17, 2026. Ahead of its release, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the book’s cover. The upcoming book focuses on the story of Nell Masters, who believes someone is following her.

“The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are silent calls to her office and a huge bouquet of flowers arrives without a card,” an official synopsis teases.

As it turns out, Nell has a reason to be looking over her shoulder. She has a secret she’s been hiding from everyone in her life, including her new partner Alex, who’s keeping some things to himself too.

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“Fourteen years earlier, when Nell went by the name Elle Nugent, she witnessed a student, Bryony Sanders, getting into a stranger’s car,” the synopsis continues. “When Bryony was found murdered, Elle became obsessed with finding the person responsible.”

When Elle became fixated with Brett Parker, the man she accused of the crime, it led her down a “dangerous path.”

“Now, Nell tries to convince herself that this unnerving feeling of being watched is all in her mind,” the synopsis adds. “Has someone from her past discovered her new identity? Has the stalker become the stalked? Or is there something even more deadly at play?”

And in her latest novel, the subject matter is more than just pages in a book for Paris.

“This book is hugely important to me because some years ago, my daughter witnessed a young woman getting into a stranger’s car and called the police,” she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement.

“Not knowing what happened to the young woman played on my daughter’s mind and I promised to use her experience as a basis for a novel,” she continues. “I have a lot of empathy for Nell, my protagonist, who acts in good faith but finds herself in a whole lot of trouble and I can’t wait to share her story with my readers.”

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When I Kill You comes out Feb. 17, 2026 and is available to preorder now, wherever books are sold.