When I first read that this one was about a con artist trying to escape her past I was intrigued. Then part of it is set on a cruise ship where she finds herself trapped, so I was super into that, who doesn’t love a good locked room mystery?! Unfortunately this is a case where it sounded way better than it actually was for me. 

It starts out by flipping back and forth between the past and the present. Past focuses on when Charlotte first meets her ex husband Sam and is introduced to a con artist lifestyle and present is after he’s disappeared and Charlotte is left to pick up the pieces of their lives. It’s super slow and when the past timelines finished and the present day took center stage I assumed the pace would pick up and I was wrong. This isn’t a thriller, it has a very small amount of tension and the outcome was weak. Everything just lagged and I was left wanting more. Meh. I’ve read another book from the author and really loved it so I would try her again, this one just didn’t work for me.