Published by St. Martin's Press Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, suspense, thriller
Format: ARC
These things that are pleasing you will hurt you somehow.”
This beings with a poor girl meeting a rich boy and falling in love. Poor girl meets same rich boy many years later and falls in love…. but will they live happily ever after? Not when there is a bump in the road and that bump is his wife who is twenty years older than him and incredibly wealthy.
Tabitha (Tabby/Tabby Cat) is that poor rich girl who meets Connor the rich young man at a country club. They fall in love, but his grandmother is having nothing to do with that. You do not date that help is her motto. Years later when Connor walks into the bar where Tabitha works insert scene from Casablanca “Of All the Gin Joints in All the Towns in All the World, She (He)Walks into Mine.” They find love all over again except Connor is married to Nina, his wealthy older wife who has an iron clad prenup that means he will get nothing if he has an affair. Then Nina is found dead……..
Tabitha and Connor quickly marry and just as fast as their marriage, Tabitha comes to the conclusion that all that glitters is not necessarily gold. There are a lot of people in this book talking about trust. It all comes down to that in the end, doesn’t it? Who can you trust in your life? Who has your back? Who will be there when you need them the most? Some hard truths, some twists and turns, some drama, some revelations a bunch of lies, betrayal, and a little ghosting. This was a fast read that kept the pages turning. Will you figure out what is going on? Will you like any of the characters? I wanted to shake a couple of them. Geez Louise, wake up Tabby I found myself thinking a couple of times. Lord have mercy, she agitated me. Wake up and smell the coffee, honey (or least the lies) and Connor, well I have a lot to say but will not so you can read and decide for yourself.
This was entertaining, parts easy to figure out, characters that had me shaking my head, an ending I wanted to be a little better, but still enjoyable. Another book that lets the reader escape from all that is going on in the world and fall into the pages of this book.
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.