- Genre: Thriller
- Published by: Berkley
- Publish date: July 09, 2024
- Number of pages: pages
- Author’s website: https://www.maycobb.com/
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Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation.
Cassidy Foster is heartbroken, stuck in life, and getting a little too obsessed with plants. Then when a well-connected friend becomes sick of Cassidy’s moping and gets her a gig with famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling, Cassidy jumps at the chance to move to sunny LA.
The Sterlings are warm and welcoming. A perfect couple. All Cassidy has to do is be available a few hours a week for errands. In return, she has access to luxury: Designer clothes. A sparkling pool. Great pay.
When Nate takes interest in her, asking her to read scripts he’s written, Cassidy thinks this could be the key to kickstarting her writing dreams. As their business relationship grows, so does their attraction. Nate is sexy and talented, and Cassidy can’t believe her luck. Clearly, Marisol doesn’t know what she has. Maybe that’s why the two are always fighting when they think Cassidy isn’t around.
But Cassidy learns she was hired for a different purpose. The Sterlings aren’t the perfect couple. Marisol isn’t the perfect wife. And when one of them is found dead, Cassidy becomes the perfect suspect.
Rating: 4/5
I really enjoyed this! Similar to many modern thrillers, we filter between post and pre-murder, but we don’t know exactly who has been murdered until the timelines converge. This story follows Cassidy a girl who is just trying to start fresh in California with an opportunity of a lifetime— being an assistant to a gorgeous couple. We quickly find that the couple isn’t all sunshine and rainbows but Cassidy isn’t reliable either!
Cassidy starts to get way more than she bargained for and this thrilling read is so easy to breeze through. You’ll be yelling at the book and the characters while reading this. I was a fan of May Cobb’s first novel, The Hunting Wives, and this one has a similar vibe— glitz and glam, a little spice, and lots of drama.
Have you read this book? What are your thoughts? I’d love to know!
I received an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this book from Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group. This has not impacted my rating and this review is voluntary.
Musings by Michelle 