Blurb From NetGalley

On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden.

Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past re-emerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret.

In this thrilling and twisty homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, the story ricochets through the streets of Los Angeles, a dangerous marriage to an exotic stranger, and the mind of a young woman whose past may not release her.

My Review

The author did successfully keep my attention till the end through her creative writing style. It was easy to understand. The pace of the writing was leisurely. She kept the reader guessing as to what might be the truth and what might not be. Whom to trust and whom not to.

Eleanor Russell, the central character, was portrayed very well. She evoked pity, sympathy, and tinge of sadness in the readers. Orlando was despicable, right from the start when he decided about canceling Thanksgiving with Ellie’s mom. Howard, Ellie’s agent, was just too sweet to be believable, and Mindy, hmm, I can’t really decide about her. She had that insignificant role to play, although she later turned out to be pivotal in the story.