After a twenty year span of time Elizabeth Lark shows up with Theo (son) on the run from an abusive husband wearing the bracelet of Myra's daughter Charlotte. Charlotte went missing when she was only eight years old.
Now, Myra's convinced this is her daughter but someone is out there terrorizing the Barkley family and this reoccurrence is the last thing they all need.
Myra's youngest daughter actually disappeared when she was supposed to be looked after by her eldest daughter.
The plot thickens with several hard to call play by plays that seemed to darn convenient and non of which made much sense. The ages of the girls and the timeline wasn't accurately portrayed.
You know affairs of the heart always lead to bad news and this is one of those situations were one wrong move, snowballed, and the father seemed to take matters into his own hands- Yes, Kenneth - I'm speaking about you. Thankfully, the housekeeper was great at keeping secrets with all this muck being thrown around.
Trailer park trash gives knew meaning to this back and forth display that really was unnecessary.
As if this isn't enough the situation became chaotic with the latter half of this book in which Kenneth takes off with three individuals for his own purposes which makes no sense. He then locks them in a posh room with fancy security cameras in his own home that he shared with his separated wife and nobody notices a thing including Charlotte's sis Gwen who was just there with his wife Adele.
Ok, call me silly...but then we're to believe he wants to kill two individuals that are closely connected to this treo and they're to stay mute over it.
Everyone then stares at each other as shiite hits the fan with guns, police, and more crazies ....
Oh and this: The boyfriend of the sister is involved and of course he conveniently kidnaps the girl. Charlotte was actually found dead and a man named Peter claims it was an accident. Bones were found and the memorial service was provided.
It's just too bizarre, too coincidental, and too weak of an ending to really be a stand out thriller for me.
Thank you to Melissa, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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