The Date is a thrilling psychological suspense novel about a woman named Ali. Ali was recently separated from her husband Matt. Her friends convinced her to go on a date with a man online, a blind date. She decides to go on this date, but she finds herself waking up disoriented and covered in blood in her home. She gets up and looks in the mirror, but she cant recognize herself. Her brother Ben comes over and she can't even recognize his face either. It turns out that she had Prosopagnosia, which was the result of a head injury. She goes through tough tests to try to regain her ability to recognize anyone, but she can't. She questions her own sanity and she doesn't know who she can trust. To spoil the book, it turns out her ex-husband, Matt, was the one who set up her date. He was the villain of the story. The huge twist is that her best friend, Chrissy, was in on it. She had been manipulated by Matt and felt super guilty about it. In the end Ali manages to escape her ex's clutches.