Meet Nicole Wilde, girlfriend of influencer Rowan Nutter who’s working on her exit strategy out of the relationship. Rowan’s done something terrible and she wants out.

What he’s done, is not revealed immediately, but for the first 40 pages Nicole mentions about every other page that he’s done something terrible he can’t make up for. I started to suspect that when I finally would be enlightened about the terrible thing it would be a let down for all that it is hyped up.

And I kind of was disappointed. Okay, Rowan did do a terrible thing and breaking up with him would make sense, but Nicole has him first repair the damages and then she will leave him. That’s a bit, hmm, well, mean. (It does give off the signal that Rowan can repair everything that he has broken.)

At the same time with the reveal of the terrible thing - told rather casually - Nicole mentions that she’s a reputation manager (or something like that). Now if she’d mentioned that a couple of times up to that point, I would have understood why what Rowan did is such a big deal to her.

Next, old boyfriend Dylan King moves in across the street and wants to hire Nicole for her services. Naturally, Rowan gets jealous.

Overall a nice story, but Nicole did get repetitive in mentioning that she would be leaving Harehill soon, to the point that I stopped believing that she would.

I read an ARC through Boldwood Books and NetGalley.