When a trip to Rome between famous influencer Amelia Ashley and her boyfriend Josh ends with him coming home alone things are about to get messy as Amelia has essentially disappeared and now people are demanding to know what happened to her and Josh is suspect number one... especially since they found her blood in his suitecase. Josh maintains that he is innocent... or is he? Enter Harper Delgado, a hacker who happens to go to school with Josh... and when a friend of Amelia and Josh asks her to search for Amelia because she just knows something is off with Josh and that something is wrong with Amelia, Harper finds herself entranced in the case and who Amelia Ashley truly is. Amelia is a popular food and travel influencer... so soon the world’s attention is on Josh and now we will have to see what happened to her and who she truly was... and who Josh truly is.... but there is one missing piece, two years ago another girl went missing and no one ever mead headlines or hastags about her but she is deeply connected to Amelia’s own disappearance. The story was an interesting one told in multiple POVs and parts, we start off with Josh and his current situation and move back to Amelia’s past and then to Harper as she cracks the case. The book ends super abruptly, like it’s a bit unsatisfactory because it could definitely use an epilogue or two or three more chapters discussing the ending of the case and what happens to all the characters. Overall it’s an interesting mystery that could have been better if the ending was more fleshed out and certain characters made different decisions but overall a good mystery.

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Also the final confrontation was a bit dumb because I mean after all your meticulous planning and revenge plot, you are going to face off against someone who you thought killed your sister and not call the police, alert, the media, or even carry a weapon or self defense thing???? Dumb. So out of character for her too. Everything was going so well until the end and I was just kinda frustrated with how abrupt the ending was and the decision of the character in the way she approached the guy she was trying to get revenge against.... seriously.

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Amelia Ashley is actually Amelia Lee ( a half chinese half white girl) who completely changed herself and passed as white to become an influencer all to get revenge against Josh. Josh who changed his name and is actually Bennett, the guy who was dating Amelia’s sister Mignon before she went missing. Amelia knows Bennett is involved and she just wants to find her sister, even if it means creating a whole new fake personality and playing the long game to get revenge against him she is willing to go to any length to finally find her sister even if it just means finding her body. The truth is Josh is obsessive, possessive, and unhinged. He killed Mignon after she tried to break up with him and he buried her body in his family’s property. He digs up her body again and Amelia catches him and then he tries to kill her too but Harper has already been following the case and figured out who Amelia is, she also released all the info into the press. The book ends with Amelia stabbed and Harper coming into the woods to save her as she also called the police to arrest Bennett/Josh.

*Thanks Netgalley and Union Square & Co. - A subsidiary of Sterling Publishing, Union Square & Co. for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*