When Kate texts "I need you," Isa, Fatima, and Thea know they must drop everything and rush back to the small seaside town they left in disgrace all those years before. Tied together by a dangerous secret and a vow to never lie to each other, they fear the past is washing back up on shore, a past that may ruin their presents. As Isa remembers her brief time at the private school she is exiled to and the events leading to their biggest lie, the women are threatened by an unknown player who could ruin everything.

Not quite as thrillings her previous two novels, still a fine and quick summer read. I wish more time was spent exploring some of the other characters besides the four main girls or if the reader was given another POV besides Isa's. I did feel the depictions of Isa's new motherhood and the fear/love she has for her six-month-old daughter were very accurate, especially the complete and utter lack of personal space new nursing mother's have. Ware captured that claustrophobia and sense of pride very well.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC.