𝑰 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌.

It can be completely sobering to realize just how the smallest, most insignificant of actions can lead to our life intersecting with the life of another. Sometimes Fate smiles, and that chance meeting brings friendship or love, but other times, the entanglements are so menacing, so laced with danger, that we curse the very concept of Fate and all that she represents.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞. The lives of Anna and Cass, two women broken in very different ways, are headed toward a shared collision course. Anna and her husband have had some problems. His depression has been crippling, so he's rented a room in the run-down Sycamores motel to work on his art. When Anna receives a heart-wrenching phone call from him confessing to a murder, she hears a bang and the line goes dead. His body is soon found washed up on the river bank.

Cass has ignored every red flag in her relationship and has found herself humiliated, traded in for a younger model. Left homeless and penniless, she accepts a job at The Sycamores as a 'handyma'am' in exchange for rent. Desperate for extra cash, she starts blackmailing easy targets, men who are cheating on their wives. This nets her some easy cash until she tries her scam on the wrong man.

Anna desperately wants answers, an accounting of her husband's final days and his other life at The Sycamores, while Cass is determined to keep her scandalous secrets hers alone, and with Anna hanging around asking questions, it's creating an environment that's just too dangerous for Cass to navigate alone.

I binged this book in about four hours, and I was spellbound the entire time. The characters and bleak setting played like a movie while I was reading, and the plot was so expertly layered and progressively more complex that there was NO way I was stopping until I was finished! What a stunner this one was! Many thanks to Graydon House Publishing, the author, and Thriller Book Lovers Promotions for this early read. This title will publish April 9, 2024.