About the Book
Kira’s back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother’s death–hidden in the unpublished memoir she left behind– even if it kills her. . . .
After her troublemaker mother’s mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy’s vow renewal celebration Though she is reluctant to go, there are things pulling her home. . . like chilled wine and days spent by the pool . . . like sexy Jack, her childhood crush. But more important are the urgent texts from her grandmother, who says she has something for Kira. Something related to her mother’s death, something that makes it look an awful lot like murder.
When her grandmother gives Kira a memoir that her mother had been working on before she died, Kira is drawn into the past and all the sizzling secrets that come along with it. With few allies left in her gossipy country-club town, Kira turns to Jack for help. As she gets closer to discovering what—and who—might have brought about her mother’s end, it becomes clear that someone wants the past to stay buried.
And they might come after Kira next.
My Review
The thriller of the summer? I was instantly hooked following Kira’s journey as she makes the decision to go back to her hometown – and place where she believes her mother was murdered. While her mother’s death was ruled a suicide, Kira never believed her vivacious mother would take her own life – and now she’s getting threatening messages that makes her believe even more whoever killed her mother is out to get her now. She descends on her Texas hometown for a friends’ vow renewal, with her estranged grandmother requesting to speak with her urgently and her childhood crush Jack also in attendance – with his wife. Kira is quickly thrust back into the past when it comes to feeling out of place with friendships, her growing feelings toward a married man, and her grandmother’s strange hints that something is very out of line.
When I say this novel comes with plenty of twists and turns, that is no joke. Each time I thought I had someone figured out, the script flipped and I was frantically reading the next chapter and then the next to understand what was happening. I was so intrigued by Kira’s mother, and we got several underlying themes of what it’s like to be a woman and expectations in their marriages, especially in an affluent town. My heart hurt for Kira when I read about the bond she shared with her mom, and how she’s never given up hope to find justice for her. Deceit, secrets, spicy scenes and murder, this is a novel that will pull you in and make you forget to look up until you’re almost to the end.
5 stars
