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Fast-paced yet rivetingly mysterious, this book follows Cherise Eden as she navigates the divorce she never imagined would happen. Cherise is tired and worn out from the divorce as well as her corporate job. In dire need of a "necessary emotional escape from San Francisco," Cherise decides to take her money and begin a new life in southwestern France. What France delivers to Cherise is a man she could have never imagined: the handsome, suave, and sophisticated Francois Delacroix. Delacroix, however, has a dark past of his own—one that traps Cherise and leads a savvy Scotland Yard investigator to France in pursuit of him. Cherise's life once again takes an unexpected, life-altering turn, but this time perhaps for the better.
While this book is predominantly a thrilling mystery, Cherise's struggle to understand herself as a newly divorced, newly liberated woman is equally engaging as the crimes awaiting solution in its pages. Cherise lives in full recognition that "Life has a way of stabbing, twisting the knife and dumping the unsuspecting victim headfirst into the ocean." She shares her memories of overcoming the extreme pressures the corporate world places on successful women. She also counters the societal and professional expectations that those systems place on women dealing with the grief divorce causes. While her friends see her decision to move abroad as radical, Cherise boldly reminds them that her life is hers, and she must live it. This book is an excellent installment in the crime thriller genre with a modern-day heroine ready to embrace new adventures.