This was a fun read; I gobbled it up in just a few days. Abby arrives on Isla Colel (a tiny island off the coast of Cancun… I thought of Holbox), she is broken-hearted. Just a few months before, her fiancée Eszter died there, and Abby wants to make sense of it all. Once a bustling tourist hub, Colel is now run down, with just a handful of residents. Even the ferry runs just once a week… maybe! Abby befriends a group of friendly expats. She realizes they may be keeping secrets when one night, her new friend Brady tells her she deserves to know the truth about Eszter, only to disappear the next day before he could tell Abby what he wanted to say. As Abby worries about Brady, the other expats seem way too relaxed about it. Abby races to figure out what happened to Brady, but as she does that, dark secrets and shady pasts emerge. Can she trust her new friends? She realizes that Eszter had lied to her about so much. Does she even know the woman she was about to marry, and can Abby figure out what happened to Eszter before becoming the island’s next victim?
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by GRACE ATWOOD
The Stripe is a lifestyle blog for the stylish bookworm. Since its first post in 2010, it has aimed to be a daily source of inspiration for the modern woman. Written by Grace Atwood, The Stripe aims to leave you feeling like you just had coffee with a great girlfriend: savvier, more confident, and always learning something new.