A Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick with Over One Million Copies Sold. "Will keep you up. In a 'can't put it down' way. It's 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' with Xx chromosomes. " The Skimm"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train. " Library Journal (starred review)A mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple," from a stunning new voice in psychological suspense. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody- a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne a socialite and philanthropist and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber's envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne's compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family's life the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her.
