Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Bantam
Publishing Date - July 2024
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For
starters, I do love the cover, nice and clean but grabs the eye. I
enjoyed this novel quite a bit. Fast paced, with no sections that drag
you down with an overly slow build up. The author did draw out the meal
descriptions a bit, but instead of becoming bored with it, I became
hungry so I have to give props there. It's a nice escapist read with no
emotional tugs.
Everyone has a story. But not everyone's story is true.
When
a young woman vanishes from her remote Greek islands estate, her best
friend races to find her, using clues found in the explosive manuscript
she left behind…
Gia and Abby have been friends since childhood,
forever bonded by the tragedy that unfolded in Greece when they were
eighteen. Now thirty, heiress Gia is back in Greece with her shiny new
husband, entertaining glamorous guests with champagne under the hot
Mediterranean sun, while bookish Abby is working fourteen-hour-days as
an attorney. When Gia invites Abby on an all-expenses-paid trip to
Sweden to celebrate her birthday, Abby’s thrilled to reconnect.
But
the day of her flight, Abby receives an ominous email that threatens to
unearth the skeletons of her past, and when she and Gia’s brother Benny
arrive in Sweden, Gia isn’t there. Worried, Abby and Benny fly to
Greece, where they find Gia’s beachfront estate eerily deserted, the
sole clue to her whereabouts the manuscript she penned, detailing the
events leading up to her disappearance. Gia’s narrative reveals the dark
truth about her provocative new marriage and the dirty secrets of their
seductive guests, a story almost too scandalous to be believed. But the
pages end abruptly, leaving more questions than answers.
How much of Gia’s story is true? Where is she now? And will Abby find her before it’s too late?
