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Amber Patterson has come from nothing. She’s seen people with wealth and influence and envied them for it. It’s just not right that some people get to be surrounded by such nice things, for their lives to just be so easy, so effortless. But she has a plan, and she fully intends to become one of those people.
She makes her way to Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, where the handsome Jackson Parrish lives with his beautiful wife, Daphne, and their two little girls. Amber plots to get access to their huge, gorgeous home and lavish lifestyle. She uses Daphne’s charitable foundation to insinuate herself into her life. Soon enough, her careful planning leads her to become Daphne’s best friend and eventually gives her the opportunity to spend more time around Jackson. He and only he is the key to give her all she wants. And she won’t stop until she gets exactly that.
Amber has a dark secret in her past, but she’s sure it’s well buried. Its discovery could ruin everything.
This suspense book has a fairly good twist but most of it was so unpleasant to read. Amber’s behavior and true self gets worse and worse, so it’s off-putting to be along for her plotting, which is more than half of the book. And then the rest details how absolutely horrific another important character is. I really wanted to put it down but I did decide, for whatever reason, to finish. The end rewards the slog through all the nastiness with some good comeuppance, but I would rather not have done the slog in the first place. It just wasn’t for me.
Rated: High. Profanity includes a few uses of strong language, around 45 instances of moderate profanity, about 25 uses of mild language, and about 5 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes a lot of sex scenes and references to sex and infidelity. None are long and detailed but there’s just a lot. Violence includes several scenes with a person threatening another with a gun and lots of scenes of domestic emotional abuse and severe controlling.
