I started this on kindle and then switched to the audio version about 40%. I thought the audio version was so well done and gripped me more than reading it on kindle. the book is like a modern Rebecca..she had Manderly and Marguerite has Roseville. Both dedicated staff, both have delicate and haunted main characters along with dismissive men. more modern though is our character Pheonix, she for one has a name:)
If you can grab the audio version, do so!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Phoenix was a character I was not sure I wanted to root for. She saved Geoffrey from the tree but then a bunch of stuff happened after. She seemed very entitled. I will say the main character does not always need to be likable for the book to be good though. This book had some hidden secrets and some delusions which I did not see coming. Overall the story was interesting and the narrator did a great job.

Phoenix is the gardener for the uber wealthy Gray family, and she will do almost anything to protect the family, particularly matriarch Marguerite, and their lifestyle brand. When she saves Marguerite’s husband from a potentially deadly accident, he is grateful, perhaps a little too grateful. And Phoenix’s position with a family becomes precarious. And that’s before you take into account the secrets that she’s keeping. I liked this book, butI would’ve liked it more If the characters have been flushed out a little better

3 stars

The protagonist is named Phoenix, which may suggest she'll be rising from some ashes, but she's more the type to burn it all down, if her early decisions in the novel are any indication.

Phoenix is a gardener to the wealthy, and this allows her an entry point into a society that is extremely dissimilar to her beginnings. She becomes fascinated with the titular Marguerite and Marguerite's husband, Geoffrey. In fact, right at the start of the novel, it's clear that there is more to her relationship with Geoffrey when she performs a life saving feat. This is strange, but Phoenix's experience - and really Phoenix - only get stranger from here.

This is a speedy read, and it is relatively engaging, but there are a few extreme conveniences, along with some abrupt shifts, that left me wanting more suspense, more intrigue, and less predictability in some ways. I enjoyed the concept more than the execution, but I would absolutely give this writer another shot.