Tabitha meets Connor Ford when they are teenagers. He’s rich and a member of the country club she works at. They immediately have a connection and fall in love, but that ends when his grandmother forbids him to see her anymore. He lets her leave and they never speak again. That is, until he comes back into her life when he walks into the restaurant she works at twelve years later. Connor is now married to the wealthy and famous Nina Levitt, but when he reconnects with Tabby they can’t stay away from each other. Problem is, Connor gets nothing if he divorces Nina and she finds out he’s unfaithful. When Nina is found dead at her annual July 4th party, Tabitha takes her place as Mrs. Connor Ford. Was it suicide or did someone murder Nina to get what they want?

First, I want to mention that this book has a great opening paragraph. ”I’m writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death. This is hard to admit, even to myself, let alone the world. My husband is planning to kill me. For obvious reasons. He’s in love with someone else. And he wants my money.” I mean this just drew me right into the book.

Tabitha starts telling her story in chapter three, and to me it was written a lot like a police interview. Like she was telling her side of the story. It was an odd way to read it when that wasn’t what was actually happening. I didn’t like this style of writing at all. I did like the few chapters written by Nina. They were much more intriguing.

I figured the big twist out very early on. I thought it was completely obvious, but I still needed to know more so stuck with it. This book held my attention and was a quick read, but it didn’t live up to its potential. I think there were a lot of unanswered questions even in the one year later chapter that I wish the author had answered.

I didn’t find any of these characters likable which made it hard to root for any of them. Tabitha was so naive and an unreliable narrator. Connor was a spoiled rich kid who became a greedy adult. Nina was probably my favorite character if I had to pick one, but she’s not in the book very much.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.