The bestselling author of the "wickedly delicious, addictive, utterly compelling" (Samantha M. Bailey, author of Woman on the Edge) The Swap explores what happens when a seemingly perfect family is pushed to the edge by cruel and increasingly dangerous attacks.
Thomas and Viv Adler have a picture-perfect family. Affluent and attractive, with two well-mannered teenagers and living in a beautifully restored Queen Anne house in a well-to-do Seattle neighbourhood, the world is their oyster.
Until one morning when they wake up to find that their house and BMW have been pelted with eggs. Thomas dismisses it as the work of a few out-of-control kids but when a smoke bomb is tossed on their front lawn followed by the tires on the BMW being punctured, he begins to worry. They install surveillance cameras but they show nothing but the grainy image of shadowy figures in hoodies. Unable to identify the perpetrators, they are helpless as the assaults escalate and the police assure them that this is all the work of bored teenagers. But no one in the Adler family believes this. After all, each Adler has a secret.
Eighteen-year-old Tarryn is working as a webcam model and one of her clients has been getting overly familiar. Twenty-year-old Eli has just dropped out of college, shamed by a fraternity hazing ritual gone awry, riddled with guilt for his part in the sexual assault of a fellow student. Viv, meanwhile, has a little problem: she filches trivial items from the homes of her interior design clients. It's just some harmless fun-until she stumbles across a drug stash at a high-profile client's home. And Thomas? At a recent bachelor party, he had a little too much to drink, engaged in some debauchery, and is now being shaken down for twenty grand.
As each Adler grapples with their guilt, fear, and shame, the assaults grow in intensity. Their "perfect" façade is crumbling and it may be too late for any of them to do anything about it in this addictive and twisty suspense novel that will keep you turning pages until its explosive ending.
