How did this relatively slow-paced read manage to make me feel so very anxious almost the entire time? It was the build-up! Smartly written, clever, and gripping. This one kept me reading late into the night. The characters aren't immensely likable, but it works in this one. More complex than it looks from the blurb, it requires full attention.

The morning that will change her life starts out not so different from others. Cassandra wakes with an awful hangover, a sign that she's had one of those nights. Filled with alcohol, reduced inhibitions, and even black-outs. When she turns to peek at the man she knows is next to her, she's stunned. The man she slept with last night is dead. There's blood everywhere. There's blood on her. And she has no idea what happened to him, the American named Alex she met on the plane who has certainly met an untimely end.

Stunned, confused, and terrified, she is due back at her own hotel soon. As a flight attendant, it's important she arrive on time to return to the airport and continue on her way, back to her own country. It's a job she's enjoyed for years, allowing her to travel and meet all sorts of new people (mostly men) to have fun with. Here she makes a decision. Instead of calling the authorities or notifying anyone in the hotel there's a dead man in the lavish room, she takes off.

Even more worrisome than cameras or the watchful eyes of workers, there is the other woman. Sometime in-between their love-making, a woman named Miranda joined them for some drinks. Alex seemed to know of her, but they weren't completely familiar. She didn't stay too long, but she would certainly remember Cassie's face, right? How long could it be before she talks to the police?

Lies, lies, lies. When anyone asks Cassie a question about the last couple of days, it's all she seems to do. How long before it catches up with her? Who killed Alex? If Cassandra doesn't remember what happened... could it have been her?

I wasn't huge on the ending, for reasons I can't get into in a review. It just didn't fit the rest of the book. That kept it from being five stars, but this complex thriller is a strong four from me and highly recommended.

I received a copy of this book from Net Galley and Doubleday Books, thank you! My review is honest and unbiased.

I did like this book. I read it fairly quickly. The story was good. However, I do have to break down some of the faults that I had with this book that would have made it that much better for me.

1) The main character Cassie. If it had not been for the fact that she found herself waking up next to a dead body, she would have been just a "Plain Jane". There was nothing that intriguing about her life or her personality.

2) The intensity level. It was middle of the road. It never rose above that level.

3) The ending was a let down. I hate reading a book just to get to the ending and have it be weak.

If all of these items were to be improved, then, I would have rated this book another star. Although, I did like what I read and would read another book from this author.

This was a whirlwind story. Twists and turns throughout, keeping the reader thoroughly engaged and not wanting to put it down. I'm really sad I wasn't able to meet this amazing author while he was in Vermont.

Cassie is one hot mess. Using alcohol and men to drown out her inner demons. Those antics catch up to her when she wakes up next to her man of the night, but this time he's dead. From there she spirals down farther. Lying to officials and preforming antics that never help her case, how much farther can she fall before the repercussions are felt?

The "Flight Attendant" grabs you from take-off and doesn't let you put it down until it's turbulent landing. Although she has obvious flaws (ie -- drinking too much, sleeping around) you can't help but root for Cassandra and hope she comes out of this latest debacle unscathed.

I love Chris Bohjalian books but I had a hard time getting into this one. It might have nothing to do with the book and everything to do with the main character. Cassandra Bowden is an alcoholic who gets drunk and is reckless with her behavior. She drinks too much blacks out, sleeps around and generally behaves in a reckless way at every turn. When she wake up next to her latest conquest in Dubai she finds that while she was passed out someone had come in and practically severed his head from his body. Not knowing what may have happened or her role in it Cassandra leaves the scene without calling he police and gets on her flight back to the USA.

Alcohol ruins lives and it ruins more than one in this book. As Cassandra tries to figure out what to do, fends off the press and has to deal with the FBI. She also feels that she is being followed and can't figure out who it could be.

Bohjalian is a master story teller of books that always touch on controversy. This one just didn't hit the mark for me. While Cassandra's drunken black outs and outrageous behavior are definitely not glorified I didn't feel the severity and weight of them on her or the people around her with the exception of this new murder.

This story started off strong for me. I really enjoyed the Dubai setting and the initial hotel scene along with the actions of Cassie when she finds herself in serious trouble. The pace was good initially, however, when she got back to the states things seemed to slow down and I felt disconnected to the story. I found my mind wandering, I'm not sure if the Russian talk threw me off or the pace slowed down but I found myself not really caring what happened. While I do think the characterization was very strong, overall this story just wasn't for me

What a riveting read! It's quite the page-turner with lots of twists and turns and an ending that was quite a surprise. Chris Bohjalian is a fantastic storyteller, and you can tell he really does his research. I actually learned quite a bit about the life of flight attendants. It's not all glamorous as one would think. Excellent writing and a very complex character that made this book an exciting read.

I received an advance review copy from NetGalley and also ended up buying a hardcopy for my book collection.

Woot! One of my very favorite authors has a new book out this week! I read it months ago as I got it via Net Galley and I’ve been waiting to share my excitement. First I have to say that Mr. Bohjalian is one of the most gifted and versatile authors that I’ve ever read. He can write in any genre and any topic. (And, if you follow him on things like Twitter and Facebook, he is a very humble and gracious guy!).

This story was a suspenseful one, focusing on a flight attendant who hooks up with a guy she serves in First Class, and then wakes up to find him dead, next to her in bed. It’s a suspenseful read, full of twists, but even more than I loved the mystery of it all, I loved the totally imperfect character of Cassandra. She made mistakes, she was rather messed up, she was not honorable, yet you couldn’t help but cheer her on.

As I read this novel, I thought “this would make a good movie!” and yesterday on Facebook I saw that a movie is in the works — yeah!

Thank you for my review e-copy via Net Galley! I look forward to the next novel from Mr. Bohjalian!

This was the first book I read by Chris Bohjalian and I didn’t know what to expect. Overall a good thriller that kept me wanting to get to the end to find out the truth! I thought the writing was really well and I will definitely check out more books by this author.

Cassie, the flight attendant, did get on my nerves at times. She seemed a bit shallow and self-entered. I get that she had an alcohol problem, which can lead to bad decisions but it just seemed unrealistic and careless how she behaved at times. He description of her thoughts on alcohol I thought were a little excessive at times- I get it she’s addicted to alcohol! Nevertheless, I was rooting for her and hoping things would work out for her and she’d be able to turn her life around.

Thank you to Netgalley and Doubleday books for the ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

I've been recommending this book left and right to anybody brave enough to put it on their list of page turners to read on a long flight. Set in the world of aviation, the plot never lets up and kept me reading.

Thanks to Doubleday Books for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

So I've heard nothing but amazing things about Chris Bohjalian's books, so I was very excited to start this one. THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT was an incredibly fast and addictive read. I couldn't put it down and this is a profession that isn't featured in a lot of thrillers or crime fiction novels.

Cassandra Bowden, known as Cassie, is a flight attendant and a binge drinker. Thankfully with her job she is able to travel and find adventure wherever she is taken. After a night of drinking, Cassie wakes up in Dubai. She's in a hotel room and begins to get up for the day - she notices the man in bed next to her is still sleeping. Then she looks closer and she notices blood, and lots of it. Not wanting to get the police involved in a foreign country, Cassie continues about her day and decides to lie. She goes through her day lying. When she is met at the gate in New York by FBI Agents, she continues to lie. Could she have killed him? What really happened back in Dubai?

So with that, I'll stop giving anything away in regards to plot (this doesn't elaborate anymore than the synopsis does). It blows my mind how much detail went into this story. Chris Bohjalian knows how to weave a complex story without losing the reader. He pulls us along with Cassie as she goes from Dubai, to Paris, and back home to New York. She feels so real - like someone you may know. Cassie is very flawed, loyal to her friends, and frustrating at times.

Overall, if you want an addictive thriller with a complex and weaving story, then you NEED to get THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT. I did not see that ending coming and I thought it was fantastic. Getting a glimpse into this profession was refreshing and almost claustrophobic. The perfect element to a thriller. Time to go get all his other books.

I give this one 5/5 stars!

My Thoughts: The opening scene of The Flight Attendant has Cassie Bowden, severely hungover, waking up in the bed of a dead man…in Dubai. That premise drew me to Bohjalain’s latest offering. Cassie is a hot mess, so much so that it’s difficult to believe she has survived on her own as long as she has. Cassie, an alcoholic, regularly drinks to the point of blacking-out, and she seems to be okay with that. She sleeps with anyone and everyone. She steals. She lies. There’s really not much to like about her, and yet I did find myself wanting her to get her act together. Unfortunately, as Cassie made one poor decision after another, I stopped caring. A Russian element, critical to the story, felt underdeveloped and incomplete. For me The Flight Attendant just didn’t work. Too much of the story simply felt gratuitous and almost (dare I say?) exploitative. I would love to see Chris Bohjalian return to his more historical stories such as Skeletons at the Feast and The Sandcastle Girls. Bohjalian is a fantastic writer and I know he can deliver so much more.

Note: I received a copy of this book from the publisher (via NetGalley) in exchange for my honest thoughts.

This is the first time I've read this author but I can tell it won't be the last! This book is twisty and turny in all the right ways. Just when you think you know what's going on, there's a different twist. The main character is very well portrayed and she's slowly built in a masterful way. The hardest part is that you really never know who to suspect. I suspected some of the betrayals but I also suspected others that never came to be. I love that this book kept me guessing. For my family-minded readers, there's some swearing throughout and a few scenes with sexual content, although it's not overly graphic. There's also a decent amount of violence but, after all, it is a book based on a murder after a one night stand. Some of the descriptions of the violence lean onto a more graphic side but it is pretty tastefully done and not just for shock factor. Overall, if you're not bothered by such things, I would definitely say to give this a try. It will keep you engaged and on your toes!

I would like to thank the publisher, author, and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

"...she explained her tendency to drink and even, on occasion, to succumb to— or, arguably, to court— the no-man’s-land where memory hadn’t a chance."

Cassie Bowden is a flight attendant and has been for many years. She's single because her one true love is alcohol. Cassie is a binge drinker, an alcoholic that passes out and has reached the point of blacking out on numerous occasions.

She flies into Dubai, goes out to dinner with a passenger on the incoming flight, goes back to his room, and when she wakes up the next morning he's dead next to her in bed.

Rather than calling the police or the American Embassy, Cassie cleans herself up, makes up a bunch of lies (something else she's really good at - like drinking), and flies back to New York City before the body is discovered. BECAUSE she's not sure she didn't kill the man while being blacked out.

This was a twisty, turny excellent story - about being an alcoholic AND about spying and espionage. And you really can't tell who to trust.

I received this book from Doubleday Books through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.

A thriller with a dash of romance, international travel, and enough twists and turns to leave you on the edge of your seat until the last page.

Sister. Orphan. Flight Attendant.

Lonely. Drunk. Easy.

Cassandra Bowden is all of these things. Complex and simple; she is a contradiction.

Being a drunk helps her forget. The numbness that comes with alcohol is the real craving. As vodka, gin, or tequila trickle down her throat and spreads into her stomach, they help to create a warm trail of deception. She becomes outgoing – in overtly embarrassing ways. She loses her insecurities – and shares her body with nearly anyone. She becomes smarter – if only to herself. Alcohol allows her to become whomever she wants to be, even if she can’t remember.

The black-outs are normal, for Cassie. She has become accustomed to waking up in any number of countries around the world, wrapped around a beautiful stranger, the smell of their sex lingering in the air of the hotel room amongst empty mini-bar bottles and lacy undergarments. Paris. Rome. Frankfurt. All of these landmark cities hold secrets of her life, snapshots of bad decisions and a myriad of mistakes. Being a flight attendant has a multitude of advantages: she can slip into the skin of anyone she so desires, slip between the sheets with whomever will take her, and forget the long nights spent in the company of booze and boys by hopping the next flight out in the morning. She leaves behind her transgressions in a cloud of jet fuel and roasted snack-sized peanuts.

One particular random hook-up will change things for Cassie, and not necessarily for the better. Meeting the handsome and enthusiastic Alex on her flight was a happy coincidence. Their flirty chatter helped to alleviate the persistent hangover Cassie was enduring, and passed the time on the long flight from New York to Dubai in a pleasant fashion. He was charming when he invited her to dinner, the two of them discussing Tolstoy and Russian literature over a duo of expensive meals, all the more lubricated by the constant flow of high-end liquor. Alex was attentive and gentle as he washed her hair in the shower of his extravagant hotel suite. He was full of finesse and vigor as he made love to her repeatedly over the course of their evening together; their time in one another’s company only interrupted once – when a vague colleague named Miranda joined them for a drink.

In the deep and foggy recesses of her mind, Cassie knows she put her clothes back on at some point and departed Alex’s suite, hoping to make it back to her own hotel room and the group of flight attendants she was working with before anyone noticed. She tried not to make it a habit of sleeping over, preferring to wake up in her own room so she had plenty of time to get ready before jetting back to New York. She also liked to try and avoid the subsequent judgements from her co-workers when they realized she’d hooked up with yet another man. But sometimes the alcohol voids all sense of reason; the black-out drunkenness forbids her from truly committing herself to anything but whatever happens to be in that precise moment.

When Cassie wakes up, she can sense she is not alone. Flickers of light seep into the room from the suite’s impressive bank of windows, the Dubai sun bringing with it a temperature that she knows will be next to unbearable. She must get up. She must get out. She must back her way back to her own hotel. Despite the incessant pounding in her head.

Slowly turning over to face Alex so she can beg off politely, Cassie is faced with the unexpected.

He’s dead. And not just dead, but brutally murdered. His throat has been slashed, his head all but severed from the rest of his young and muscular body. There is blood everywhere, soaking into the mattress and slicking her hair and coating her own body. It almost doesn’t appear to be real – how could one body hold such a gargantuan amount of blood inside of it? Frantically searching her brain for any shred of information that will explain what happened the evening before that could have led to this outcome, Cassie finds nothing but a black void.

Thinking quickly, she showers any trace of Alex’s lifeblood from her body and tries to wipe down everything she has touched. She carefully gathers the pieces and shards of a broken bottle that may or may not have been used in his murder, planning to drop it in a random trash can later. She gazes upon his dead body with mixed feelings and a wave of regret. Alex had been kind. Gentle. If even for the one night. Other thoughts cross her mind. Did she do this? Did someone else? What should she do now?

Terrified at the prospect of the consequences of murder in a foreign country known for its swift and unforgiving hammer of justice, Cassie flees the scene and calls upon every ounce of resolve she can muster to relieve herself of the murder weapon and join her flight crew appearing calm and collected. Hiding this is the only way to abscond herself from prosecution and the prospect of being jailed in a foreign country indefinitely. But there are some things you cannot escape, even transcontinentally.

It doesn’t take long for the murder to be discovered, or for the FBI to come knocking on Cassie’s door. Scraping up courage and nudged in the direction of an excellent lawyer by an unexpected ally, the flight attendant begins to cover her tracks. But the ever-reaching grasp of alcohol continues to pull on her, wrapping itself around her body and better judgement like overgrown vines scaling an abandoned garden. She self-sabotages; she cannot stop herself from pathologically lying to everyone. Cassie finds herself becoming obsessed with the man she spent one night with – was Alex a Russian spy? A thief? A murderer himself? Why would someone kill him – execute him – in such a fashion? Is she sure it wasn’t her?

The Flight Attendant is the newest novel from Chris Bohjalian, a New York Times bestselling author known for his mastery of the suspense novel and his thrilling plot lines. But while the opening of this novel was interesting and gripping, I found myself feeling less satisfied as the book progressed. The character of Cassie was one who was very difficult to like, and I found myself wondering at times if the author even liked her himself. She was promiscuous to almost a comical degree, she was self-loathing and spent much of her time in a depressive state, and there was literally nothing redeeming about her whatsoever. As the plot moved ahead, I found myself disliking Cassie more and more, and wondering if the author meant for her to come off quite as stupid as she appeared to be. Her choices were non-sensical, even for a drunk, and not realistic in my opinion. There was a disconnect. In fact, nearly every character seemed out of place and overly manufactured.

As a result, I have to give this book no more than 3 stars. I was disappointed. I was very excited to read a novel by this particular author, as so many of his books have come up in my time as a reviewer, with praise and high recommendations. I don’t know if the plot was just off for me, or if it was something else. The rating on Goodreads is rather high, and I just did not find that it was worthy. The ending was roughly sewn together with next to no closure, and I did not understand the point of the epilogue – nor did it make any sense to me. Given the shameful portrait Bohjalian drew of Cassie, it was unlikely she would have ended up where she indeed ended up.

The writing was well done, as a whole, and I won’t allow one mediocre book to keep me from reading another of Bohjalian’s works. Midwives has been on my TBR list for a while, and I’m hoping it’s better than this novel.

All in all, the most I can say is that I recommend the first quarter of this book. The rest fell apart.

In the literary realm, it’s pretty tough to produce work of high quality in high quantities. There are a handful of popular fiction writers who can do it – authors who can churn out books at a rapid rate without said books ever reading like they were churned, if that makes sense.

Chris Bohjalian is one such author.

His new book is “The Flight Attendant” (Doubleday, $26.95); it’s his 20th in a 30-year span. Yet this latest offering – a story of mystery and murder surrounding one woman and her hazy memories of an evening of questionable decisions – is just as sharp as anything he’s written in previous decades. Clever without being smug, lurid without being gratuitous, it’s a fast-paced read that embodies the best qualities of this kind of fiction.

Cassie Bowden is a flight attendant. She’s been at it for the better part of two decades – and she’s good at it. It’s the rest of her life where her skills are somewhat lacking. She’s got a streak of self-destruction a mile wide. She’s got a real problem with alcohol; it defines her life, leading her down paths of tawdry one-night stands and public misbehaviors and assorted other unsavory choices.

The occasional blackout has long been par for the course for Cassie, but when she wakes up one morning next to a man in Dubai – a passenger on her flight that she actually chatted up while on the job – she’s thrust into a chaotic nightmare.

See, she woke up next to a dead man, his throat slashed and his blood spattered all over the room. In a moment of blind panic and naked self-preservation, she makes a fateful decision – she leaves. She doesn’t believe that she’s the one who did it, but she has no memories of much of the night; she’s never hurt anyone before, but there’s always a first time.

So she runs. She’s got nothing but vague memories poking through a haze of drink – memories of a mystery woman who came to the room, a colleague of the man at his investment company – and so she flees. She gets on her return flight and heads back to the United States … where the FBI is waiting.

Cassie’s gotten really good at lying over the course of her life – so good that it’s almost second nature. Fearful of the possible consequences of her actions, she lies. She lies to the FBI and lies to her union rep and lies to her co-workers and friends. She doesn’t see any other way out.

But as the story breaks and suspicions start to swirl, Cassie is floundering. Law enforcement entities on both sides of the ocean are trying to solve this case. Titillating stories are landing in the tabloids and Cassie is lawyered up. There’s more to this than a simple murder – much more – but Cassie’s not prepared for just how deep the rabbit hole may go. This has implications far beyond one simple flight attendant – it’s a crime for which even the innocent may be harshly punished.

“The Flight Attendant” has all the wonderful meatiness of a potboiler while maintaining a certain degree of literary merit. It’s a fast-paced mystery driven by a twist-laden plot. By centering the story around a protagonist whose unreliability is immediately established, Bohajalian allows the reader to feel that very same lack of balance that keeps Cassie reeling – all while telling a parallel tale alongside Cassie’s journey.

That parallel narrative – present in every other chapter – is also compelling, albeit in a very different and distinct way. Details regarding said parallel path are best left unrevealed; the pieces will come together very quickly for the reader, but there’s no reason to know them going in. Suffice it to say, it’s a smart choice that adds a real depth to the experience that might otherwise have been lacking.

Again, the twists and turns of the narrative are great fun to experience. Experienced readers might be able to sniff out some of them, but the truth is that Bohjalian is almost certainly going to stay a few steps ahead of you right up until the very end. That’s not easy to do, but you wouldn’t know it from the deftness with which he pulls it off.

“The Flight Attendant” is the sort of book that one can’t help but read quickly. The writing is dynamic and the plot is seductive; the reader is helpless against the urge to know what happens next. It’s remarkable enough that Chris Bohjalian continues to produce work with such prolificacy, but to create stories this energetic and exciting and flat-out fun … it’s really something special.

Have you ever known (or known of) someone whose life has begun to resemble a raging dumpster fire due to their epically poor decision-making or coping skills? Well, multiply that times ten and you might be close to the disaster that is Cassandra Bowden, main character of author Chris Bohjalian's latest release The Flight Attendant.

"Like almost everything else she did, it was crossing a line that most people wouldn’t. She did it because it thrilled her. It was just that simple. She did it because it was, like so much else that made her happy, dangerous and self-destructive and just a little bit sick."

Most of Cassandra's poor decisions are in direct correlation to her relationship with alcohol; drinking is the tool that she has chosen to employ in an effort to cover up old wounds that tend to resurface regularly. It's unfortunate, and she fully acknowledges her need to clean up, but she struggles with self-worth and an unrequited desire for genuine happiness.

"She learned quickly that music sounded better, people were nicer, and she was prettier when life’s rough edges had been smoothed over with a little alcohol."

Unfortunately, one of her adventures leads her into the bed of an international traveler who, as it turns out, may be hiding some secrets of his own; when she wakes up the morning after, he is dead...still in bed, next to her. GAH!

"This, she thought with a terrible certainty, might really be the moment she would look back upon as the point where it all began to unravel."

As usual, Bohjalian weaves a crafty tale, full of details and careful plot development; he introduces another character, one who has been tasked with tying up the loose ends of that evening, and Cassandra is forced to admit that she may be in more trouble than she can handle.

"It was while crossing Fifth Avenue near the library that she felt it: a prickle of unease along her skin. A shiver along the back of her neck. She knew the word from a psychology course she’d taken in college: scopaesthesia. The idea was you could sense when you were being watched."

While this is not my favorite of his novels, and I found myself a little distracted during some of the narrative about Russian ties and international money-laundering networks (although super timely!), overall this was an entertaining read. Often cringe-worthy, as Cassandra digs herself deeper and deeper into an isolating existence, Bohjalian remains one of the best at crafting flawed, broken characters who manage to survive unimaginable circumstances.

The premise for this book sounded very exciting, a flight attendant waking up in a hotel room in Dubai next to a viciously murdered man. She is a binge drinker and passes out from over drinking often, she can’t remember what happened after she slept with the man. Unfortunately this book took until my Kindle location was at 70% to really get going.

Cassie Bowden is a veteran flight attendant, approaching early middle age, who is unhappy with her life and the way she lives it. All she remembers is that she attended to Alex Sokolov in first class on the flight to Dubai and then ended up in his room and that he was good to her and she liked him. After that she thinks that she had left his room to return to her own, but obviously she didn’t because she woke up next to him, right? She also remembers a woman coming into their room and sharing drinks with them, but there is no sign of anyone entering or leaving their room on the video footage of the hotel room. She is afraid for her life so far from home. She begins to lie, to her flight crew, the FBI which is investigating the case, even to herself.

What I didn’t like about this character is that she seemed to be so out of control of her life and that she has been so for many, many years. Even after this incident, while it is still being actively investigated, she engages with another man whom she has just met. This character did not grow in the least little bit throughout the book. I felt that most of the book was taken up with the investigation but nothing really exciting happened until three quarters of the way through the book.

I wish that Mr. Bohjalian would have made the rest of the book as interesting/exciting as the ending. I’m sure that his fans will probably enjoy this book but I couldn’t recommend it. None of the other characters in the book were well described and there was little said of the cities that she visited and the other people in her life with the exception of her sister. The premise is a good one and perhaps others will find it more fun to read.

I received an ARC of this novel from the publishers and NetGalley.

Will post to Amazon , etc close to the publication date.
Review posted to amazon on 3/18/18

What would you do if you woke-up hungover in a stranger’s hotel room and found him beside you in bed dead. Not only dead but violently murdered (his throat slashed) and you have no memory of the night before and begin to think maybe you murdered him.
Cassie meets Alex on a plane to Dubai that she is a flight attendant on and he is a passenger. She flirts with him and arranges to meet up with him later on that evening for dinner in Dubai. Dinner leads to a nightcap in his hotel room. Cassie remembers having sex with Alex and leaving to return to her hotel room, only she obviously returned sometime after she left with zero memory of what happened and the fear and horror that she may have killed this man.
Cassie flees the hotel room and flies back to the US, hoping she won’t be arrested for Alex’s murder. The story unfolds as the murder is investigated and Cassie tries to figure out what really happened to Alex that night. Cassie’s history of drinking, blacking out and having sex with different men while traveling as a flight attendant doesn’t help the FBI’s view of her innocence.
A page-turning story of a murder where an innocent person is accused and a foggy memory is unfolded as Cassie seeks out the only other person who saw her in Alex’s hotel room and realizes her own life may be at stake.
I received an ARC.