This book is a stunner! When the book opens. Elodie Fray is a young woman who has given up her successful career in marketing, is working shifts in a cafe and living in low rent digs in order to concentrate on trying to get her first novel published.
Without even fully realising it, Elodie tells a lie, the repercussions from which spread and grow out of her control. When she turns to Jack, her oldest and dearest friend, Jack comes up with a plan to get her out of the mess she has gotten herself into. Elodie agrees to go along with Jack’s plan, completely unaware that she is about to get into a hugely bigger mess, of danger and terror she couldn’t have imagined. This is absolutely heart stopping stuff that kept me up all night.
While Elodie is telling her story, her sister Ada tells hers, in every alternating chapter. The two sisters have been virtually estranged, but Elodie is missing, and while Ada is torturing herself with fears of what might have happened to Elodie, she examines the relationship between the two of them and how her life has reached its present state. Ada’s chapters are all letters she is writing to Elodie, in the hope that Elodie will get to read them. Dandy Smith’s writing of this is nothing short of brilliant.
While not wanting to give too much away, I hope I’ve given away enough to encourage lots of people to read this terrific book. Thank you NetGalley for my ARC.
Published by Kensington Publishing Corp.
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