I have had this book sitting in my Kindle for a while now. I finally decided to give it a read.
We are introduced to Katrina (Kat; the mom), Cleo (the
daughter), Aidan (the father), the McHugh family. Talk about a messed-up
family. Kat and Cleo are at odds with each other for various reasons, and Aidan
seems lost with his own problems and not wanting to deal with theirs.
We also have Janine and Annie (a mother and daughter who
live across the street from the McHughs). There’s some history between Cleo and
Annie and how their friendship went up in smoke.
There’s Kyle, the boyfriend.
There’s Kat’s past that she chooses to keep buried and hopes
no one looks too closely.
And Kat’s job? She’s a patent lawyer, but not your typical
patent lawyer. There is the underlying story of Kat and her new relationship
with Doug, and a lawsuit that involves Darden Pharmaceuticals. I was wondering
how all this tied together and then it did. Kat’s boss seemed oblivious to the
intricacies of this whole case.
There’s also Will, Cleo’s newest love interest.
I kept turning pages because I wanted to know how all of
these intertwining stories related to each other, and as I was reading along, I
was starting to develop a theory of the whodunit. I actually figured out the
whodunit, just not the why. It was a convoluted trail to get there, with all
the intertwining smaller stories. It’s a good twisty read.
