Book Blurb:
Opal Sullivan has a plan:
-Move home to help her mother grieve the loss of her best friend
-Stay in her childhood home until she finds a place of her own
-Keep far, far away from Will Kendricks
Opal’s plan falls apart before she can unpack the first box.
-Too many questions still linger around Ruth’s death
-Her mom has already found her a new roommate
-The new roommate is Will
Growing up as neighbors with best friends for mothers, Opal has never been able to untangle her life from Will’s. He was the boy who teased her, the teenager she hated, and the man she never understood. And after one night they’ve kept buried all these years, they stopped speaking altogether.
Now they have no choice but to break their rules if they want the truth about Ruth’s death.
Because something isn’t right.
The town and life that once felt so safe now simmer with unease.
When tragedy strikes again, Opal knows time is running out. The deeper she digs, the more certain she becomes: whatever truths they uncover might be more devastating than all the lies.
Pulled together by grief and suspicion, the boy she once despised becomes something far more dangerous—someone she can’t quite trust, and yet can’t bring herself to let go of. Are they ready to face the past they’ve both tried to forget?
Will might be her downfall…
Or the thing that saves her from it.
Tropes:
*High Gravity ALC *Mystery *found family *Teacher FMC *non-linear Narrative *Flashbacks
*Enemies --> More *thriller *small town *Secrets revealed
Thoughts:
This is my first book by this author but it won't be my last, this story weaves through the past and present as Opal (FMC) returns home to be closer to her mother after a tragedy strikes, her mother's best friend passed away the police are ready to close the case and rule it as accidental but things are not adding up and Opal is determined to get to the bottom of what really happened.
Opal is attempting to settle into her new life as she gets reaquainted with her home town, she got a job as a teacher at the local school and even finds that she has an old friend there from college... from flashbacks we know that her and this friend were dating casually but nothing serious happened, but maybe now is the time for second chances. Opal could really use a friend especially since her mom and her mom's best friend (more like a second mom) has found her a place to stay... and it's with her childhood nemesis Will.
No worries they are both adults, doesn't matter that he made her miserable as children... and even went to the same college as she did so she couldn't get rid of him there either.
As we get to know Opal and Will more see their past history together and have a better understanding of what really happened from both sides it's hard to miss that there was always a caring heart between anything Will did in the past, even if he may have went about things the wrong way.
Opal brings up concerns to her mom and Will's mom that their friend's early demise should be investigated further but no one but Will seems to think there may be more to the story.
Then tragedy strikes again and the need to figure out what really happened is more necessary than ever. As Opal gets closer to the truth deep secrets emerge and danger gets closer will it be too late to tell the ones who matter most how she really feels?
If Will has been so terrible to her why does she feel safest when he's near?
I enjoyed this story, I did wish that it focused a bit more on the mystery at times as it spent a lot of time going back in time to Opal and Will's college days, and the mystery seemed to be put on the back burner and I wanted to know what was happening!
I did figure out some things before the end but I don't feel it took away from the story.
I thank the author and High Gravity for this ALC! It was single narration by Persephone Lee but she did really well with the story!
If you enjoy a romance with a mystery add this one to your TBR!
Have you read this one yet? What did you think?
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