Watch a preview for the new series YOU by Caroline Kepnes!

Watch a preview for the new series YOU. Premieres September 9 at 10/9c on Lifetime. 

“Hypnotic and scary.” —Stephen King

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You, both the 2014 novel by Caroline Kepnes and the TV adaptation set to debut on Lifetime next month, gains its power from a brilliant trope subversion. 

The story takes you inside the mind of Joe (played in the TV series by Penn Badgley), a NYC bookstore manager who falls in obsession with a beautiful stranger named Beck (Elizabeth Lail). 

Joe uses social media and other modern technology to stalk Beck, molding himself into the perfect boyfriend and removing any obstacles to their burgeoning relationship.

The story is chilling for the ways in which, from a casual outsider's perspective, Joe is the ideal man women have been conditioned to seek out. 

He's smart, handsome, and literally saves Elizabeth's life when she falls onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn. It's only the viewer, who is given access into Joe's internal monologue and most disturbing of actions, who understands that this isn't a romance; it's a horror.

Read the Book!!

From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of 2014, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age.
When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.
As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.
A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that’s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King’s Misery.

“I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.” —Lena Dunham

“I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious….My most favorite thriller.” (Lena Dunham)

“YOU is superb. So funny, apart from anything else, and properly clever. It is: different, hot.” (Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and The Other Woman’s House)

“An impending sense of dread hangs over Kepnes’ cleverly claustrophobic debut, in which love takes on a whole new meaning…Kepnes keeps the reader guessing.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Compelling.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Intense and deeply disturbing, You is a dark story told in a fresh voice, and an addictive read from beginning to end. Being inside Joe Goldberg’s head was both a thrill and a nightmare, and yet I didn’t want to wake up. I look forward to more from the very talented Caroline Kepnes.” (Jennifer Hillier, author of THE BUTCHER)

“Chilling…[Kepnes’ YOU] will have readers looking over their shoulders.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

“Chilling…unrelenting.” (USAToday.com)

“A deeply dark yet mesmerizing first novel of two people caught in a romantic tangle with an ever-tightening knot.” (Booklist)

“This beautifully crafted thriller… will give you chills.” (People)

“Ominous.” (Us Weekly)

“Both original and compelling. If you only read one new thriller this year, make it this one. It will stay with you long after you have put it down.” (Geoffrey Wansell Daily Mail (UK))

“You think you know the story: girl meets boy, boy turns out to be a murderous stalker. US journalist Kepnes’ debut is a fantastically creepy thriller…the kind of book you put your life on hold for.” (Glamour)

“A page turner…clever and chilling.” (Elle (UK))

“A brilliant tale of obsessive love…it’s GONE GIRL meets a sinister version of GIRLS.” (Marie Claire (UK))

“Is Caroline Kepnes’ ‘You’ the next GONE GIRL? It’ll take you inside a psychopath’s head… and might even make you like him. A mad and macabre love story.” (TimeOut Australia)

“Could be the next GONE GIRL…a perverse suspense romance about obsession, sex, and secrets.” (PopSugar.com)

“All-consuming – a book that will not release its hold on you, even when you are not actively reading it.” (BoloBooks.com)

*Now a Lifetime series*

Caroline Kepnes is the author of You, Hidden Bodies and Providence. 

She has worked as a pop culture journalist for Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer on 7th Heaven, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and the upcoming adaptation of You. 

Originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts she now writes full-time and lives in Los Angeles.

The brand new series YOU , premieres September 9th at 10pm ET/PT on Lifetime.