Description
She saved your life.
One hot, humid night in London, Cara is caught up in a wave of terror and chaos. Until a hand reaches out - and a stranger pulls her to safety.
She knows your darkest secrets.
Taking refuge with her unlikely rescuer, Cara shares more of herself with Amy than she ever has with anyone, including her husband. But after the hours of darkness are over, she can't remember exactly what secrets she revealed. Cara attempts to put it all behind her. But cracks begin to show in her life and marriage, and she starts to receive anonymous threats.
She's your closest friend.
As Cara's life begins to skid out of control, Amy reappears, offering to help. Amy is only person Cara can turn to, who knows her hidden side. Amy saved her that night. But what if the biggest threat to Cara is the stranger she's invited into her home?
She's your worst nightmare.
Review
This book begins with a scene that felt only too real. A terror attack in London and Cara is seeing it unfold before her when someone pulls her inside a shop and saves her life.
We find out that Cara works as a radio producer and the next day a special programme is aired featuring the events of the terror attack. The person who saved Cara rings in and reveals that she will keep the secret Cara shared with her safe!
Slowly we see Cara's life begin to unfold, both the past and the present events before she witnessed the terror attack. Cara needs a nanny and it turns out that the stranger who saved her is just that so she invites her to live in her home. Meanwhile the stranger begins to find out a little more about Cara's past.
I found this book to be a slow starter after the initial horror of the opening scenes. There was nothing for me to endear me to Cara - I found her very shallow and self serving and wasn't really interested in what happened to her or her life.
Once Amy - the stranger, begins to find out more about Cara's past the book got more interesting and there were two twists - or even a double twist that made me sit up and take note. The end of the book was very taught and the physiological thriller aspect of the book really came to life with a nail biting scene. I was wondering how this was all going to end. Finally we get closure on what has been happening in the book - or do we? as a terrific final twist is revealed.
I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars. I did enjoy the book but felt it took me a long time to get through.
My thanks to Netgalley for a copy of the book for review.
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