- Publisher: Gallery Books (May 2019)
- Length: 304 pages
- ISBN13: 9781501184543
Tessa was prepared for the hurricane. Lindsey was the storm she didn’t see coming.
When Tessa Taylor unlocked her husband Ethan’s iPad to discover nude photos from a twenty-six-year-old bombshell named Lindsey, her seemingly perfect life came to a screeching halt.
With a hurricane barreling toward Florida and Ethan stuck on a business trip, Tessa finds herself imprisoned in her own home with a choice to make: Does she ride out the storm until she can confront Ethan in person, or does she take matters into her own hands?
Increasingly restless and desperate for revenge, Tessa resolves to act. And when she lures Lindsey over a few hours later, there’s no turning back.
What ensues is a battle of wills between two well-matched opponents, blinded by love for the same man but driven by demons of their own. Like storm-ravaged Florida, neither woman will be the same when the skies clear.
He’s mine. Both wife and mistress would stake their lives on it. But only one of them can be right.
My Review
First off, the cover of this book intrigued me for sure. Then the description made me open the book, well let me tell you, I started the book and had it 80% done in one sitting, I then finished it up the next night.
This is the classic story of a man who betrays his wife and has an affair with a much younger woman. What isn't classic is what happens in the story. We learn about the wife Tessa and the mistress Lindsey. The reader is able to follow the story of one man's infidelity and supposed love for his mistress.
Tessa is a high powered woman with a successful business, three children and a marriage that she is happy in. Lindsey is a twenty-something woman with a young child that lives with her mother. She is going to school but really has nothing else going for her. She meets Ethan and thus the affair starts.
There is a hurricane hurtling toward Florida, Ethan is away in New York, the kids are away so Tessa plans her revenge. She persuades, in the guise of Ethan, Lindsey to come to their home. Saying more would give away too much of the story.
That said, I can't believe how fast I was able to read this book. That does not happen very often lately, usually takes me a while to read a book. From the first page until the last, I was hooked. The story just flowed so well for me and the story of a woman who has a husband who cheats on her, I also had this happen to me so I could relate, is so believable and with the book focusing mostly on Tessa and Lindsey, it is a page-turner. I loved it!
Love psychological thrillers? Then you have to go get this book!
I received a copy of this book for review purposes only.
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Courtney Cole grew up in rural Kansas and now lives with her husband and kids in Florida, where she writes beneath palm trees and is still in love with the idea of magic and happily-ever-after. She is the author of Saving Beck and Mine.
