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Rachel Hawkins has done it again! AND I love each one of her books even more than the last!
This novel revolves around the wealthy heiress, Ruby McTavish (Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore, aka Mrs. Killmore) starting from when she was kidnapped at the tender age of 3, to her 4 marriages (deaths of her 4 husbands), the adoption of her son, Camden, down to all of the secrets she kept until her death.
Camden, who inherits this massive estate once Ruby passes, wants nothing to do with the inheritance. He walks away from it for the past decade until he receives an email from his cousin that there are issues with the estate that need to be taken care of. So he and his wife, Jules pack up and return to North Carolina to the family mansion, the Ashby House.
This book is filled with crazy twists and turns. It’s loaded with family secrets and scandals. I was hooked from the very beginning! If I hadn’t been sick, I would have finished this in a day! I absolutely loved the letters from Ruby!
I loathed the living McTavish’s - Ben, Libby & Nelle. What hateful, deceiving people - even from the beginning when Camden was first adopted. I wasn’t a fan of the physical abuse but it was part of Ruby’s story (which is just a tragically amazing story). I thought that Jules was selfish for most of the book, especially knowing how Camden felt about the estate but I did change my feelings of her closer to the end of the book.
I absolutely adored the ending of the book when all the lingering questions were answered. The found article is the icing on the cake! Loved so much!!! Rachel Hawkins truly has a way with words and the way she slowly ties up all the loose ends of the plot is just an art. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys thrillers, suspense, mysteries that have a twisted darkness!
𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℍ𝕒𝕤:
Kidnapping
Murder
Romance
Family Scandals/Secrets
Dysfunctional Family
Multiple POV’s (Camden, Jules & Ruby)
Alternating Timelines
𝐂𝐖: physical abuse, alcoholism
Thank you to @netgalley, @stmartinspress & @ladyhawkins for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.