There is a stranger outside Caroline's house.Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aiden, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary.
As her marriage collapses around her and the lavish lifestyle she's built for herself starts to crumble, Caroline turns to Aiden for comfort...and revenge. After a brief and desperate fling that means nothing to Caroline and everything to him, Aiden's obsession with Caroline, her family, and her house grows more and more disturbing. And when Caroline's husband goes missing, her life descends into a nightmare that leaves her accused of her own husband's murder.
When I read the premise of this book it had a ton of potential, but it just didn't deliver in a way that I enjoyed overall. My rating is a 2.5 stars, because, in all honesty, it fell flat. It seemed predictable and therefore it just didn't hold much suspense for me while I was reading. I kept reading because I was sure that I was missing something and it would surprise me, but it just never did. I read and loved the author's previous novel, It's Always the Husband. Because of that, I would still pick up another novel by this author. Her writing is easy to read and I know it's there, it just missed the mark for me in this one.
* I received this book from the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review *
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